Today’s Odd Wisconsin describes Wisconsin’s first election in 1836.
I thought that this was interesting:
That first census taken in August 1836 was performed in order to identify voters. It found only 11,683 non-Indian residents within the bounds of today’s Wisconsin: Brown County – 2,706 Crawford County – 850 Iowa County – 5,234 Milwaukee County – 2,893. So when it was born, Wisconsin contained only about as many people as Cedarburg, Fort Atkinson, Hudson, or Plover do today.