Samuel Dickinson Burchard (July 17, 1836 – September 1, 1901) was a nineteenth century politician and manufacturer from Wisconsin

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Born in Leyden, New York

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, Burchard moved to Beaver Dam, Wisconsin

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 with his father in 1845, attended Madison University

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 and engaged in the manufacturing of wool in Beaver Dam. At the outbreak of the Civil War

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, he entered the Union Army

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 as a lieutenant

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 in the Missouri State Militia

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, was later appointed assistant quartermaster

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 of volunteers

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 with the rank of captain, being stationed in New York

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, and was mustered out with the rank of major

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. Burchard served in the Wisconsin Senate

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 from 1872 to 1874 and was elected a Democrat

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 to the United States House of Representatives

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 in 1874, serving from 1875 to 1877. Afterwards, he engaged in agricultural

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 pursuits until his death in Greenwood, Texas

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on September 1, 1901. He was interred in Greenwood Cemetery in Greenwood.