Leander F. Frisby

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Leander Franklin Frisby (June 19, 1825 – April 19, 1889) was an American Republican politician and lawyer from Wisconsin.

Born in Mesopotamia Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, Frisby moved to Burlington, Wisconsin Territory, in 1846, where he taught school. In 1850, Frisby was admitted to the Wisconsin bar and moved to West Bend, Wisconsin. Frisby was the first district attorney of Washington County, Wisconsin. He was active in the Free Soil Party and then the Republican Party after 1854. In 1861, he served in the Wisconsin State Assembly. Frisby served as Wisconsin Attorney General 1882-1887.[1][2]

Notes

  1. ↑ Leander Frisby, Wisconsin Historical Society
  2. ↑ 'National Cyclopedia of American Biography,' Vol. 2, J.T. White:1892, Biographical Sketch of Leander Franklin Leander, pg. 239


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