The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bashford, Coles

​BASHFORD, Coles, governor of Wisconsin, was born at Alden, N.Y., Jan. 24, 1816. After the usual preliminary course, he studied law at the Wesleyan seminary, Lima, N.Y., was admitted to the bar in 1841, and became prominent in politics in three different states, acting as district attorney for Wayne county, N.Y., 1847-'50; removed to Oshkosh, Wis., was a member of the Whig state convention of Wisconsin in 1851; state senator in the Wisconsin legislature, 1853-'55; the first Republican governor of Wisconsin, 1855-'57; removed to Tucson, Arizona; was attorney-general of the territory, 1864-'67; delegate to Congress, 1867-'69, and secretary of the territory, 1869-'76. He died April 25, 1878.

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