Joseph Travis Rosser (J. Travis Rosser, J. Traverse Rosser) was an American politician. From

Mankato, Minnesota Mankato ( ) is a city in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, Blue Earth, Nicollet County, Minnesota, Nicollet, and Le Sueur County, Minnesota, Le Sueur counties in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is the county seat of Blue Earth County, Minnesota. The ...

, Rosser served as the Secretary of the

Minnesota Territory The Territory of Minnesota was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 3, 1849, until May 11, 1858, when the eastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Minnesota and the w ...

from 1853 to 1857. Rosser was from

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, a lawyer, and slaveholder. He was also a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1860 from

Minnesota Minnesota ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the so ...

.'Lawyers and Courts of Minnesota Prior To and During Its Territorial Period, Judge Charles E. Flandrau (An address at the Annual Meeting of the Minnesota Historical Society, January 13, 1896), pg. 97

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