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Charles Kuehn

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983: 362:. The defeat of the Confederacy was a financial disaster for him and his banks, eventually resulting in their failure, able to pay out only 45 cents on the dollar to their depositors. Kuehn died just a few months after the war's end, in November 1865, but before his bank's imminent failure became known to the public. At the time, his death was reported as a stroke, but later reports describe that he committed suicide by taking a fatal dose of morphine. 328:. He was the only candidate on the statewide Democratic slate that year who was not tainted by the corruption scandals of the Barstow administration, and was narrowly elected over Republican nominee Charles Roeser. He served two years and was not a candidate for re-election in 1857. 331:
Kuehn's term as treasurer was controversial. He started his own bank in Manitowoc during his term as treasurer, and was accused of transferring all the gold currency from the treasury to his own bank, in exchange for his own
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in 1848, running on the Democratic Party ticket. His district at the time comprised all of Manitowoc County. He ran for re-election in 1849, and won a second term, defeating Whig candidate James L. Kyle.
374:, in April 1845, but had no known children. After Kuehn's death in 1865, his bank's creditors hounded his widow trying to recoup their losses. She was forced to sell their mansion and moved to 1063: 1073: 1024: 1058: 1053: 359: 340: 314: 1017: 1068: 955: 881: 804: 742: 1010: 772: 834: 674: 877: 646: 592: 562: 511: 430: 255: 197: 318: 301:, where he operated a grocery and dry goods store for several years. He was elected without opposition to the 325: 259: 34: 923: 298: 267: 102: 459: 275: 271: 990: 917: 899: 302: 263: 96: 777: 718: 714: 1043: 294: 176: 1048: 375: 348: 59: 8: 998: 965: 355: 344: 87: 55: 708: 948: 870: 379: 287: 160: 75: 358:, Kuehn made the fateful decision to invest his own money as well as the banks' in 310: 251: 333: 994: 849: 820: 790: 758: 378:. Eventually, she would remarry with her sister's widower, Union Army general 63: 1037: 343:, Kuehn was one of a small portion of Wisconsin Democrats who supported the 545: 413: 908: 891: 126: 293:
He emigrated to the United States sometime before 1848. He settled in
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Kuehn's banks prospered for a short time, but in the midst of the
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The following year, Kuehn received the Democratic nomination for
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Democratic Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly
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Wisconsin Assembly, Manitowoc District Election, 1849
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Treasurer of Wisconsin
William A. Barstow
Arthur MacArthur Sr.
Coles Bashford
Edward H. Janssen
Samuel D. Hastings
Wisconsin State Assembly
Manitowoc County
Ezra Durgin
Kingdom of Saxony
Two Rivers, Wisconsin
Stroke
Democratic
German American
Democratic
state treasurer of Wisconsin
Wisconsin State Assembly
Manitowoc County
1849
1850
Kingdom of Saxony
Two Rivers, Wisconsin
Manitowoc County
Wisconsin State Assembly
Wisconsin Senate
1st State Senate district
David Taylor
State Treasurer of Wisconsin
wildcat currency
1860 United States presidential election

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