Territory's upper legislative body) in 1864 and served from 1867 until 1869 as a territorial delegate to the 40th United States Congress as an independent, rather than with his former party. The last political office Bashford held was Secretary of State for the Arizona Territory, by appointment from U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant in 1869, and again in 1873. After the Territory's capital moved from Prescott, where Bashford and Levi ran the Bashford Mercantile Store, Bashford resigned in 1876 to stay close to his business interests. He died in Prescott two years later. Bashford was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, in Oakland, California. He and his wife Frances Adams had seven children: Belle (who had died at age 11), Edward, Elizabeth, Helen, Lillian, Margaret, and William Coles. The Bashford Mercantile Store remained operating in Prescott until the 1940s. Electoral history | colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| General Election, November 6, 1855 See also List of governors of Wisconsin 1855 Wisconsin gubernatorial election References Further reading Campbell, Tracy. Deliver the Vote : A History of Election Fraud, an American Political Tradition-1742-2004, pp. 43–45. Carroll & Graf, 2005. Current, Richard Nelson. Wisconsin: A History, pp. 176–78, 180. University of Illinois Press, 2001. McCann, Dennis. 3 governors held office within weeks Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 10, 1998. Attorney General ex. rel. Bashford v. Barstow, 4 Wis. 567 (1856). Sonnichsen, C.L. Tucson: The Life and Times of an American City, pp. 69–70. University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. External links |- |- |- |- 1816 births 1878 deaths Arizona Attorneys General Arizona lawyers Arizona pioneers Arizona Republicans Delegates to the United States House of Representatives from Arizona Territory Governors of Wisconsin New York (state) lawyers People from Cold Spring, New York Politicians from Oshkosh, Wisconsin Politicians from Prescott, Arizona Wayne County District Attorneys Wisconsin Republicans Wisconsin state senators Wisconsin Whigs Members of the Arizona Territorial Legislature Republican Party governors of Wisconsin 19th-century American politicians 19th-century American lawyers Burials at Mountain View Cemetery (Oakland, California)