List of people from Janesville, Wisconsin
The following notable people were born in or are associated with Janesville, Wisconsin.
Artists and performers
[edit]- Pete Lee, comedian
- Tim Davis, co-founder of The Steve Miller Band
- Gloria Foster, actress
- Karron Graves, actress
- Carrie Jacobs-Bond, songwriter
- Tad Kubler, guitarist for The Hold Steady[1]
- Kerwin Mathews, actor
- Charles McCarron, vaudeville composer
- Manilla Powers, singer, Vaudeville performer, musical theater comedian
- Leoni W. Robinson, architect[2]
- Tom Welling, actor (lived in Janesville briefly during childhood)
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet
Athletes
[edit]- Mistie Bass (Mistie Williams), WNBA player
- Frank Bliss, MLB player
- Tommy Cronin, NFL player
- Moxie Dalton, NFL player
- Stan Fox, race car driver, eight-time starter at the Indianapolis 500
- Tucker Fredricks, Olympic speedskater
- Fred Hayner. baseball player
- Larry Hough, Olympic rower
- Paul Janus, NFL player
- Travis Kvapil, NASCAR driver
- John Morrissey, professional baseball player
- Tom Morrissey, professional baseball player
- Joe Riggert, MLB player[3]
- Terry Ryan, MLB manager
- Peter Shorts, NFL player
- Bob Strampe, MLB player
- Keeanu Benton, NFL player
Military personnel
[edit]- Leslie Allen Bellrichard, Medal of Honor recipient, Vietnam[4]
- James Bintliff, Union Army general
- Victor Bleasdale, Navy Cross and Distinguished Service Cross recipient[5]
- Frank Matteson Bostwick, U.S. Navy Commodore
- James E. Croft, Medal of Honor recipient, Civil War[4]
- Gerald L. Endl, Medal of Honor recipient, World War II[6]
- Theodore W. Goldin, Medal of Honor recipient, American Indian Wars
- John Johnson, Medal of Honor recipient, Civil War
- John E. McCoy, U.S. Air National Guard general
- Henry Palmer, Union Army general
- James Pond, Medal of Honor recipient, Civil War[4]
- Thomas H. Ruger, Civil War general and military governor of Georgia under occupation
- Claron A. Windus, Medal of Honor recipient[7]
Politicians
[edit]- C. S. Amsden, South Dakota State Representative and Senator
- William A. Barstow, Governor of Wisconsin, Union Army general
- Harry W. Bolens, Wisconsin State Senator
- Stephen Bolles, U.S. Representative
- William B. Britton, Wisconsin State Representative
- James H. Budd, Governor of California
- Zebulon P. Burdick, Wisconsin State Senator
- Bob Carr, U.S. Representative from Michigan
- Peter P. Carr, Wisconsin State Senator
- John B. Cassoday, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Harmon Sweatland Conger, U.S. Representative from New York[8]
- Dave Considine, educator and Wisconsin State Representative
- Tim Cullen, Wisconsin State Senator[9]
- Joseph Doe, U.S. Assistant Secretary of War
- Russ Feingold, U.S. Senator
- Edwin G. Fifield, Wisconsin State Representative
- Alexander Graham, New York and Wisconsin State Representative[10]
- Gilbert N. Haugen, U.S. Representative from Iowa
- Fenner Kimball, Wisconsin State Representative
- James H. Knowlton, Wisconsin State Representative
- Debra Kolste, Wisconsin State Representative
- Don L. Love, Mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska
- Allen P. Lovejoy, Wisconsin State Senator
- William A. Lawrence, Wisconsin State Representative and Senator
- David W. Márquez, Alaska Attorney General
- Alexander E. Matheson, Wisconsin State Representative and jurist
- Max Maxfield, Wyoming Secretary of State
- Hiram Merrill, Wisconsin State Representative
- Cyrus Miner, Wisconsin State Representative
- David Noggle, Wisconsin State Representative, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Idaho Territory
- Thomas S. Nolan, Wisconsin State Representative
- Pliny Norcross, Mayor of Janesville and Wisconsin State Representative
- Andrew Palmer, Wisconsin State Senator
- Henry A. Patterson, Wisconsin State Representative
- Anson W. Pope, Wisconsin State Representative
- Steve Preston, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- Paul Ryan, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
- Michael J. Sheridan, former speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
- Ithamar C. Sloan, U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
- A. Hyatt Smith, politician and businessman
- E. Ray Stevens, Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
- James Sutherland, Wisconsin State Senator
- George Tarrant Sr., Wisconsin State Representative
- Henry Tarrant, Wisconsin State Representative
- Howard Teasdale, Wisconsin State Senator
- Alexander McDonald Thomson, former Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
- Charles L. Valentine, Wisconsin State Representative
- William G. Wheeler, Wisconsin State Representative and U.S. Attorney
- John Meek Whitehead, Wisconsin State Senate
- Edward V. Whiton, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Charles G. Williams, U.S. Representative
- George H. Williston, Wisconsin territorial and state legislator
- Agesilaus Wilson, Wisconsin State Representative
- Wayne W. Wood, Wisconsin State Representative
- Edwin E. Woodman, Wisconsin State Senator
Other
[edit]- David Adamany, president of Temple University
- Sanford Soverhill Atwood, sixteenth president of Emory University
- John Henry Comstock, entomologist
- Joseph Dutton, Civil War veteran and later missionary to the lepers of Molokai
- Jim Fitzgerald, former owner of the Milwaukee Bucks and the Golden State Warriors
- Lavinia Goodell, first woman licensed to practice law in Wisconsin
- William Goodell, abolitionist
- Ken Hendricks, Forbes 400 businessman
- Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Unitarian minister and magazine editor
- Walter Lees, early aviator
- Mary Kimball Morgan (1861–1948), American educator and college president
- George S. Parker, founder of the Parker Pen Company
- Alonzo W. Pond, archaeologist and speleogist
- Frances Willard, educator and activist (raised and first taught here)
- Daniel Hale Williams, African-American surgeon and heart surgery pioneer, raised and first employed here
- Allene Tew, an American socialite during the Gilded Age who became a European aristocrat by marriage.
References
[edit]- ^ "Interview: The Hold Steady". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on 2018-12-15. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
- ^ Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers. Annual Report of Proceedings, Volumes 36-39. New Haven. p. 113.
- ^ "Joe Riggert Statistics and History". baseball-reference.com. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
- ^ a b c "Wisconsin Medal of Honor Recipients". Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs. December 1998. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2010.
- ^ "Victor F. Bleasdale". Military Times. Archived from the original on 7 March 2012. Retrieved 19 November 2010.
- ^ "Medal of Honor Recipients: World War II (A-F)". United States Army Center of Military History. Archived from the original on 2008-06-16.
- ^ "Medal of Honor Recipients: Indian Wars Period". Archived from the original on 2009-11-06. Retrieved 2022-01-17.
- ^ "Conger, Harmon Sweatland". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. United States Congress. Retrieved 19 November 2010.
- ^ "Common Cause in Wisconsin: Tim Cullen to join CC/WI state governing board". WisPolitics. Archived from the original on 25 January 2016.
- ^ Turner, A. J., ed. (1872). The Legislative Manual of the State of Wisconsin (11th ed.). Madison, Wisconsin. p. 456.
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