son, John Starks, served as a sergeant in Company A, 6th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, Iron Brigade, and was badly wounded in their first major battle at Gainesville, Virginia. After recuperating, he was commissioned as first lieutenant of Company I, 23rd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, and was later promoted to captain of Company K in the same regiment. He was wounded again at the Siege of Vicksburg, and died of complications from this wound two years later. Electoral history Wisconsin Prison Commissioner (1853) | colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| General Election, November 8, 1853 References |- 1804 births 1870 deaths People from Williamsburg, Massachusetts Politicians from Albany, New York Politicians from Milwaukee People from Sauk County, Wisconsin Wisconsin Democrats New York (state) city council members Wisconsin state senators 19th-century American politicians Republican Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly