Walter D. McIndoe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Walter D. McIndoe

American politician

Date of Birth: 30-Mar-1819

Place of Birth: Dunbartonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 22-Aug-1872

Profession: businessperson, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Walter D. McIndoe

  • Walter Duncan McIndoe (March 30, 1819 – August 22, 1872) was a lumber industrialist and politician from north-central Wisconsin.
  • Among his notable achievements was election to the United States House of Representatives. Born in Dumbartonshire, Scotland, McIndoe immigrated to the United States in 1834.
  • He engaged in business in New York, Charleston, and St.
  • Louis, finally settling in Wisconsin in 1845 where he became involved in the lumber business.
  • He served as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1850, 1854, and 1855.
  • In 1850 as a member of the Assembly he introduced a bill changing the name of his home community from Big Bull Falls to Wausau and creating Marathon County.
  • Initially a Whig, in 1854 he became a member of the newly formed Republican Party.
  • At the 1857 Republican Party convention, he was a gubernatorial candidate, contending with Edward Dwight Holton, with both candidates losing to the eventual governor, Alexander Randall.
  • During the Civil War he was provost marshal of Wisconsin. McIndoe was elected as a Republican to represent Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district in the Thirty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Luther Hanchett (January 26, 1863–March 3, 1863).
  • He was reelected to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses this time as the representative of Wisconsin's newly created 6th district serving from March 4, 1863 to March 3, 1867.
  • During the Thirty-ninth Congress, he served as chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.
  • In 1866, McIndoe declined candidacy for renomination, instead resuming his interests in the lumber business.
  • He died in Wausau, Wisconsin, on August 22, 1872, and was interred at Pine Grove Cemetery.

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