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American politician
Grégoire Dupont
Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
from the 1st Brown County district
In office
1887–1887
Personal details
Born(1842-12-18)December 18, 1842
Pietrebais, Province of Brabant, Belgium
DiedJuly 1, 1917(1917-07-01) (aged 74)
Robinsonville, Wisconsin, US
Political partyRepublican
SpouseJulie Henrion (m. 1862)

Grégoire Joseph Dupont (December 18, 1842 – July 1, 1917) was a Belgian-American politician. He served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1887, representing Brown County's first district.

Biography

Dupont was born in Belgium in 1842, and immigrated to Wisconsin in 1855. He married fellow Belgian Julie Henrion at Bay Settlement, Wisconsin, in 1862, and they had nine children together. At various points in his life, Dupont was occupied as a shingle mill laborer, photographer and farmer. He lived in Robinsonville, Wisconsin.

Dupont was a member of the 18th Wisconsin Infantry in the American Civil War. He served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1887 as the representative for northeastern Brown County. Dupont was one of the first Belgian-Americans from northeast Wisconsin to serve in the Assembly; others included Joseph Wery, Constant Martin, Benjamin Fontaine and John B. Eugene. Dupont was also a school board member, the town chairman for Green Bay, a Brown County supervisor for the town of Green Bay and a member of the Green Bay Dairy Board of Trade.

Dupont died on July 1, 1917.

Electoral history

Wisconsin Assembly, Brown County 1st District, 1886
Party Candidate Votes %
General Election
Republican Grégoire Dupont 1,598 57.21%
Democratic R. W. Cook 1,158 41.46%
Prohibitionist C. Dubois 37 1.32%
Total votes 2,793 100.0%

References

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