A lawyer was elected the first attorney of the new city corporation in 1853.

The evidence

• “In 1853 the town of Janesville obtained a city charter, and our subject was elected the first attorney of the new corporation. In the preceding year he had been nominated by the Whig party for the position of prosecuting attorney for the county of Rock, but was not elected.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/32-courts-and-legal-profession.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 260 / book p. 761

  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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