Background
Burgess was born August 31, 1805 in Chatham, New New York
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Lathrop Burgess
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He lived there for the rest of his life. Burgess held various local offices such as justice of the peace In June 1850, he was one of the founding vice-presidents of the Agricultural Society of Kenosha County. He was elected to the Assembly from the 2nd Kenosha County district (the Towns of Brighton, Bristol, Paris, Salem and Wheatland) in 1851 as a Freesoiler or "Free Democrat", succeeding Henry Johnson (a Whig).
He was succeeded the next year by James McKisson, a Democrat.
In 1852, he was one of the judges for farming implements at the Kenosha County Fair. In 1856, he was again elected to the Assembly from the same Kenosha County district, succeeding the same Henry Johnson.
By this time, however, Johnson was also a Republican. Burgess was not a candidate for re-election, and was succeeded by another Republican, Almond Cornwell.
Until its 1857 merger to form what later became part of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, Burgess was on the board of directors of the Kenosha and Rockford Railroad Company.
Burgess died at Brighton on March 11, 1899. He is buried in Salem Mound Cemetery in Salem, Kenosha County, Wisconsin. His papers are in the collection of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Membership
By September 1854, he was a member of the new Republican Party, and a delegate to its state convention.
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Political Party
Republican party