Timothy Burns

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Timothy Burns (May 31, 1820 – September 21, 1853) was the third Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1851 until his death while in office in 1853, serving as a Democrat. Timothy Burns was born in Dublin, Ireland. As a young man, he settled in Iowa County, Wisconsin.

He was a lead miner, businessman, and was elected sheriff of Iowa County. Burns served in the Wisconsin territorial House of Representatives in 1847-1848. Later, in 1849 he served in the Wisconsin State Assembly. In 1850, he moved to La Crosse, Wisconsin, where he help developed the city. He died in La Crosse. Burns Park in downtown La Crosse was named after him.^[1]

Notes

↑ Burns, Timothy 1820 - 1853

References

Timothy Burns, La Crosse Republican and Leader, Mose Strong, September 20, 1871.
Timothy Burns:Short-lived Settler left huge last memory, Myer Katz, La Crosse Tribune, November 8, 1981.
Burns lite fire under young La Crosse, Reid Magney, La Crosse Tribune, March 4, 1998.
Newspaper clippings courtesy of the La Crosse public library-archives.

External links

Lieutenant Governor Timothy Burns of Wisconsin, Wisconsin State Historical Society

Political offices
Preceded by Samuel Beall	Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin 1852–1853	Succeeded by James T. Lewis

v t e Lieutenant Governors of Wisconsin

Holmes Beall Burns Lewis MacArthur Campbell Noble Salomon Spooner Pound Pettit Parker Bingham Fifield Ryland Jonas Baensch Stone Davidson Connor Strange Morris Dithmar Comings Huber O'Malley Gunderson Ekern Goodland Rennebohm Smith Knowles Nash Knowles J. Olson Lucey J. Olson Schreiber R. Olson Flynn McCallum Farrow Lawton Kleefisch

Persondata
Name	Burns, Timothy
Alternative names
Short description	American politician
Date of birth	May 31, 1820
Place of birth	Dublin, Ireland
Date of death	September 21, 1853
Place of death

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