Frederick T. Condit (March 27, 1852 – January 1933) was an American lawyer from Merrillan,

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who served one term as an

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Greenback member of the

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from Jackson County.

Background

Condit was born in the village of

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, Yates County,

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, on March 27, 1852; he came to Wisconsin with his family in 1857, and they settled at

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. Condit received a

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education, and became a lawyer. He moved to Merrillan in Jackson County in 1877.

Public office

In 1877 he ran as a Democrat for district attorney, but lost. He was elected as an "Independent Greenback" in 1878 with 833 votes to 811 for Republican J. R. Sechler ( Republican incumbent Carl C. Pope was not a candidate for re-election). He was appointed to the

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s on federal relations and on

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and

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; and to the joint committee on claims. In 1879 he ran as a Democrat for the

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's 32nd District (Jackson and Monroe counties), losing to

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, with 3,425 votes to Price's 4,395. He was succeeded in the Assembly by Republican

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Outside the Assembly

Condit married Elsie Woodley on January 13, 1879. Sometime after leaving the legislature, he moved to Hudson in

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, where he became the Mayor of Hudson and was editor and manager of the ''

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''. He died in Hudson.

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* 1852 births Editors of Wisconsin newspapers Mayors of places in Wisconsin American newspaper editors People from Jackson County, Wisconsin People from Dresden, Yates County, New York Wisconsin Greenbacks 19th-century American politicians Wisconsin lawyers 1933 deaths People from Sparta, Wisconsin People from Hudson, Wisconsin Democratic Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly {{Wisconsin-mayor-stub