Lucius Fairchild
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Lucius Fairchild was an American politician, soldier, and diplomat. He served as the tenth governor of Wisconsin and represented the United States as Minister to Spain under presidents Rutherford B. Hayes and James A. Garfield.
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Lucius Fairchild, Lieutenant Colonel of the 2nd Wisconsin Infantry, before his promotion to colonel on November 17, 1862
Field officers of the 2nd Wisconsin Vol. Infantry, photographed at a camp in northern Virginia circa 1862. The officers seated, from left, are surgeon A. J. Ward, Major Thomas S. Allen, Lt. Colonel Lucius Fairchild, and Colonel Edgar O'Connor.
General Lucius Fairchild, John Singer Sargent, 1887
Fairchild's grave at Forest Hill CemeteryIn their orbit 1
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Lucius Fairchild was an American politician, soldier, and diplomat. He served as the tenth governor of Wisconsin and represented the United States as Minister to Spain under presidents Rutherford B. Hayes and James A. Garfield. He served as a Union Army colonel during the American Civil War and lost an arm at Gettysburg.
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Lived 1831 to 1896 · aged 64
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