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Major events. April 30, 1836: Henry Dodge was appointed the first Governor of the Wisconsin Territory. October 10, 1836: George Wallace Jones elected delegate to the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin Territory's at-large congressional district.
Creating the Wisconsin Territory White settlers rushed onto land left vacant by Indian removals. Lead miners from southern states (including some with slaves) and from Cornwall, England, were joined in the 1830s by farmers and developers from New York and New England.
The Territory of Wisconsin was an organized and incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 3, 1836, [1] until May 29, 1848, when an eastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Wisconsin.
By 1835, the population of these three counties had grown sufficiently for Wisconsin to be authorized as a new territory. James Duane Doty, a Wisconsin land speculator who was the state's representative in the Michigan legislature, led this effort. On July 4, 1836, the Wisconsin Territory was born.
The Wisconsin National Guard consists of the Wisconsin Army National Guard and the Wisconsin Air National Guard. It is a part of the Government of Wisconsin under the control of the Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs.
WISCONSIN TERRITORY. The Wisconsin Territory was not formed by act of Congress until 1836. It was a part of the Northwest Territory beginning in 1787, the Indiana Territory in 1800, the Illinois Territory in 1809, and the Michigan Territory in 1818.
Wisconsin was successively part of the original Northwest Territory (1788-1800), Indiana Territory (1800-1809), Illinois Territory (1809-1818), and Michigan Territory (1818-1836) before it became a territory in its own right (1836-1848).
