Judge Cassoday cast his first vote for a presidential candidate, for Franklin Pierce.

The evidence

• “Judge Cassoday 's first vote for a presidential candidate was for Franklin Pierce, in 1852, but was a Republican from the organization of that party. In 1864 he was a delegate to the Baltimore convention which nominated Lincoln, and was placed upon the committee on credentials.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/32-courts-and-legal-profession.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 264 / book p. 765

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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