Wisconsin's Third Governor Resigns

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Wisconsin's Third Governor Resigns
On March 21, 1856 when William A. Barstow resigned from office as Wisconsin's governor, he shared national news with Senator Stephen A. Douglas, who was engaged in a battle with fellow Senator Lyman Trumbull over the legitimacy of the recent elections in Kansas which took place in the wake of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act. The passage of this law was one of the major precipitating events leading to the Civil War.

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"Wisconsin's Third Governor Resigns" appears in: A Reprieve for Maria Barstow