Edward S. Bragg
Edward S. Bragg | |
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Representative Edward S. Bragg | |
| United States Minister to Mexico | |
| In office March 5, 1888 – May 27, 1889 | |
| President | Grover Cleveland |
| Preceded by | Thomas C. Manning |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Ryan |
| Chair of the House Military Affairs Committee | |
| In office March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1887 | |
| Preceded by | William Rosecrans |
| Succeeded by | Richard W. Townshend |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin | |
| In office March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1887 | |
| Preceded by | Daniel H. Sumner |
| Succeeded by | Richard W. Guenther |
| Constituency | 2nd district |
| In office March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1883 | |
| Preceded by | Samuel D. Burchard |
| Succeeded by | Joseph Rankin |
| Constituency | 5th district |
| Member of the Wisconsin Senate from the 20th district | |
| In office January 1, 1868 – January 1, 1870 | |
| Preceded by | George F. Wheeler |
| Succeeded by | Hiram S. Town |
| District Attorney of Fond du Lac County | |
| In office January 1, 1854 – January 1, 1856 | |
| Preceded by | William H. Ebbets |
| Succeeded by | Isaac S. Tallmadge |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Edward Stuyvesant Bragg February 20, 1827 Unadilla, New York, U.S. |
| Died | June 20, 1912 (aged 85) Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Resting place | Rienzi Cemetery, Fond du Lac |
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| Height | 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) |
| Spouse |
Cornelia Colman (m. 1854) |
| Children | 6 |
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| Nickname | "The Little Colonel" |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | United States |
| Branch/service | United States Volunteers Union Army |
| Years of service | 1861–1865 |
| Rank | Brig. General |
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Edward Stuyvesant Bragg (February 20, 1827 – June 20, 1912) was an American lawyer, diplomat, and Democratic politician from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. He served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing eastern Wisconsin from 1877 to 1883, and from 1885 to 1887, and was one of the leading Democrats in Wisconsin in the latter half of the 19th century. He also had a distinguished military career as a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, leading the 6th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment and later the famous Iron Brigade of the Army of the Potomac, rising to the rank of brigadier general by the end of the war.
Bragg found a new calling as a diplomat after he was appointed United States minister to Mexico by president Grover Cleveland in 1888. In the 1890s, Bragg fell out with the Democratic Party over the populist policies of William Jennings Bryan, and later served as consul-general to the Republic of Cuba and British Hong Kong under President Theodore Roosevelt.