Background
Rolfe, born in Hillsboro, Massachusetts in 1821, was the son of Stephen and Mary A. (Reed) Rolfe.
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James Rolfe
Edit Profilepolitician member of the Wisconsin State Senate
Career
He came to Wisconsin Territory in 1846, and located in Milwaukee, living there for seven years, when he moved to the town of Polk and acquired 400 acres of land. In November 1854 Rolfe was one of three committee members appointed by Washington County"s Board of Supervisors who negotiated a final settlement of financial controversies deriving from the division of Ozaukee County from that county in the spring of 1853. He held various town offices as well.
At the time of Rolfe"s 1854 election to the Senate, the 4th District consisted of the Towns of Erin, Richfield, Germantown, Jackson, Polk, Hartford, Addison, West Bend, Newark, Trenton, Farmington, Kewaskum and Wayne, in Washington County lieutenant had been represented by Baltus Mantz, a Democrat from Meeker who died in office of cholera.
Rolfe was succeeded in 1856 by former incumbent Baruch Schleisinger Weil, a Democrat from Schleisingerville. Rolfe died on April 1, 1888 at the Rock County Asylum in Johnstown Center, Wisconsin.
