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RARE "Wisconsin Senator" Isaac Stephenson Clipped Signature:
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Up for sale a RARE!  "Wisconsin Senator" Isaac Stephenson Clipped Signature. 

1829 – March 15, 1918) was an American politician of the Republican both a United States Representative and

a United States Senator. He

was born in the community County, New Brunswick (now Canada, but a British colony at the

time). His parents were Isaac Stephenson (1791–1874), a lumberman and farmer

born in Ireland of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and Elizabeth (Watson) Stephenson

(?–1838), who was born in London. Stephenson

joined the Republican Party, which was popular among his class in the northern

tier of states. His wealth and economic power made him a powerful figure in

local and state politics. He was elected to several offices, including town

supervisor, county board chairman, and justice of the peace. Next

Stephenson was elected as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1866,

1868). In 1882, he was elected to the Forty-Eighth Congress, and then reelected to (serving March 4, 1883 – March 3,

1889). He represented Wisconsin's newly created 9th

congressional district. He was not a candidate for re-election in

1888. In 1899 he was unsuccessful in his offer to gain election by the state

legislature as a United States Senator from

Wisconsin (as was the process at the time). In 1900 he threw his support and

substantial financial backing behind Robert M. La Follette, Sr.,

in his campaign for the Wisconsin governorship,[3] and for a number of years was a prominent

adviser to the Progressive faction

of the Republican party, and a liberal contributor to its campaign funds. In

the 1904 progressive-stalwart split, Stephenson was chosen by the

"gymnasium convention" as one of the progressive delegates to the

Republican national convention along with La Follette and William D. Connor. Although the national convention refused to

accept the credentials of the Progressive delegation, the La Follette forces

were recognized as the legal Republican ticket by the Wisconsin Supreme Court (1904).

In 1901 Stephenson established the Milwaukee

Free Press, providing Progressive-Republicans with a

metropolitan newspaper, and competition for the Stalwart-controlled Milwaukee Sentinel. In

1907 Stephenson sought the U.S. Senate seat made vacant by the resignation

of John C. Spooner and,

after a brief deadlock, was elected by the Progressive-controlled state

legislature. In 1908 he ran for renomination in the Republican primary, was

opposed by La Follette, but despite this opposition won the nomination through

the aid of the state chairman of the Republican party William D. Connor and lavish use of his personal wealth,

and was re-elected by the legislature in 1909. Although his election was twice

blocked by fraud investigations in both the state legislature and the U.S.

Senate, Stephenson was eventually vindicated and resumed his seat in the

Senate, serving from May 1907, to March 1915. Stephenson

holds the distinction of being the oldest elected freshman United States

Senator; he was 77 when he took office. In 1909 Stephenson purchased a

prized Holstein cow as a

gift for the 27th President of the United

States, William Howard Taft. The

cow was named Pauline Wayne and she

became the last presidential pet cow. Pauline Wayne lived and grazed on

the White House lawn. 

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