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unusual facts about James Russell Vineyard



Frank Raguse

Some press coverage over the years has claimed that Raguse was the first Wisconsin legislator to be expelled; but James Vineyard had been expelled from the Council (the predecessor of the State Senate) of the Wisconsin Territory in 1842 for shooting and killing a fellow legislator, Charles C. P. Arndt, on the floor of that body (an incident remarked upon by Charles Dickens).


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