Bragg, Edward S
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 20, 1827, in Unadilla, N. Y. He received a collegiate education; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1848. He moved to Fond du Lac, Wis., commenced the practice of law in 1850, and was elected district attorney in 1854. He served in the union army from 1861 to 1865, rising to the rank of brigadier-general. He was appointed postmaster of Fond du Lac in 1866; was a state senator in 1868 and 1869; and was a delegate to the democratic national convention of 1872. He was elected a representative from Wisconsin to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh and forty-ninth congresses.