Edward Salomon was the eighth Governor of Wisconsin

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 during the Civil War

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 after the accidental drowning of his predecessor, Louis P. Harvey

Louis P. Harvey

Louis Powell Harvey was an American politician and the seventh Governor of Wisconsin.Harvey was born in East Haddam, Connecticut, later moving with his family to Ohio. He attended Western Reserve College and Preparatory School and worked as a teacher for a time, and eventually moved to Kenosha,...

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Salomon was born in Ströbeck

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Ströbeck is a small village in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, near the town Halberstadt. village and a former municipality in the district of Harz, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2010, it is part of the town Halberstadt. It is famous as the Schachdorf , due to a long historic connection with...

, Prussian Saxony. He was lieutenant governor of Wisconsin

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 from 1860 to 1862 before becoming governor after Harvey drowned in the Tennessee River

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 while visiting Wisconsin troops after the Battle of Shiloh

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. He moved to New York City

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 in 1869 and in 1894 moved back to Prussia where he died and was buried.

In 1862 Governor Salomon responded to a request from the War Department

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  for more troops by asking for volunteers and setting up a draft. He was able to raise 14 regiments. Salomon had to call up federal troops to quell the Port Washington Draft Riot. Suppression of the rioters with use of federal troops cost him the 1864 Republican nomination.

His brother, Frederick C. Salomon

Frederick C. Salomon

Frederick C. Salomon was a German immigrant to the United States who served as a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War.-Biography:He was born in Stroebeck near Halberstadt, Prussia...

, served as a general for the Union Army.