Samuel W. Beall was the second Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin

Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin

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. He was born in Maryland

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; in 1827 he graduated from Union College

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 in Schenectady, New York

Schenectady, New York

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. He moved to Green Bay, Wisconsin

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 in 1835, where he made a fortune in land speculation; in the 1840s he settled in Taycheedah

Taycheedah, Wisconsin

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. He served as lieutenant governor for Nelson Dewey

Nelson Dewey

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's second term as governor

Governor of Wisconsin

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, from 1850 until 1852. During the American Civil War

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, he was a lieutenant-colonel in the 18th Wisconsin Infantry

18th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment

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 and was wounded in the Battle of Shiloh

Battle of Shiloh

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. After recovering, he was put in charge of a prisoner of war camp in New York

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. After briefly returning to Wisconsin after the war, Beall moved to Helena, Montana

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, where, in 1868, he was shot following an argument.