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The Territory of Wisconsin was an organized and incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 3, 1836, [1] until May 29, 1848, when an eastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Wisconsin. Belmont was initially chosen as the capital of the territory. In 1837, the territorial legislature met ...
Solomon Juneau was elected mayor. The new city had a population of about 10,000 people, making it the largest city in the territory. Milwaukee remains the largest city in Wisconsin to this day. Wisconsin Territory Map of Wisconsin Territory 1836–1848. Wisconsin Territory was created by an act of the United States Congress on April
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By 1835, the population of these three counties had grown sufficiently for Wisconsin to be authorized as a new territory. James Duane Doty, a Wisconsin land speculator who was the state's representative in the Michigan legislature, led this effort. On July 4, 1836, the Wisconsin Territory was born. President Andrew Jackson appointed General ...
Wisconsin was successively part of the original Northwest Territory (1788-1800), Indiana Territory (1800-1809), Illinois Territory (1809-1818), and Michigan Territory (1818-1836) before it became a territory in its own right (1836-1848). By 1818 the boundaries of the Michigan Territory had been extended westward to the Mississippi River.
A Brief History of Wisconsin before Statehood. Wisconsin became a territory in 1836. Before then, it was successively part of the Northwest Territory (1788-1800) and the territories of Indiana (1800-1809), Illinois (1809-1818), and Michigan (1818-1836). Its population was 11,683 when the territory was chartered in 1836, 30,749 in 1840, and ...
1st Wisconsin Territorial Assembly. The First Legislative Assembly of the Wisconsin Territory convened from October 25, 1836, to December 9, 1836, and from November 6, 1837, to January 20, 1838, in regular session. The Assembly also convened in special session from June 11, 1838, to June 25, 1838. [1] [2]
The Wisconsin Territory was not formed by act of Congress until 1836. It was a part of the Northwest Territory beginning in 1787, the Indiana Territory in 1800, the Illinois Territory in 1809, and the Michigan Territory in 1818. The Wisconsin Territory stretched north to the British-Canadian border and was originally bounded to the west by the ...
