Career
He was the grandfather of poet Ezra Pound. Pound was elected as Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin serving under Governor Lucius Fairchild from January 3, 1870 till January 1, 1872. In 1876, Pound was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress, replacing Democrat George West. Cate in representing Wisconsin"s 8th congressional district.
He was reelected to the Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh Congresses.(March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1883).
And was succeeded in the 48th Congress by fellow Republican William T. Price. During his time as a Representative, Pound was a prominent businessman in Wisconsin.
He was president of the Chippewa Falls and Western Railway and the Saint Paul Eastern Grand Trunk Railway (both predecessors of the Soo Lincolnshire Railroad). He also served as president of the Chippewa Spring Water Company (a company still in business as of 2008) as well as the Union Lumber Company, which was reorganized as the Chippewa Falls Lumber and Boom Company in 1879.
He died in Chicago, Illinois on November 21, 1914.
The village of Pound, Wisconsin, is named in his honor.