Worshipful Grand Master John Eugene Smith, general in the Union army during the American Civil War 19th-century residents John F. Beard (1822–1891), lived in Galena for one year in 1845; plasterer and Wisconsin State Assemblyman James Beckwourth (1798–1866), explorer; came to Galena as a miner in the 1820s; some reports say that he was an indentured servant Henry M. Billings (1806–1862), came to Galena as a miner in 1828; served in the Wisconsin Territorial House. In 1848, he served in the Wisconsin State Senate and then the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1858 John Wilford Blackstone, Sr. (1796–1868), miner and lawyer in Galena; served in the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature Ebenezer Brigham (1789–1861), one of the first settlers of Galena, in 1822; later one of the first permanent settlers of Dane County, Wisconsin; served on Territorial Council Richard H. Cain (1825–1887), Congressman, bishop, vice president of the "Colored Convention" (1853), first president of Paul Quinn College Donald A. Callahan (1876–1951), politician, born and raised in Galena; Republican Party nominee for the United States Senate seat in Idaho in 1938; was defeated; served in both chambers of the Idaho state legislature Thompson Campbell (1811–1868), politician, miner in Galena; Illinois Secretary of State (1843–1846); United States Representative for Illinois' 6th Congressional District (1851–1853) M. H. Cleary (1853–1933), Illinois state legislator, lawyer, and physician Samuel Crawford (1820–1860), Wisconsin Supreme Court Henry D. Dement (1840–1927), son of John Dement and grandson of Henry Dodge; served in the 13th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment; elected to two terms in the Illinois House of Representatives starting in 1870, then two terms in the Illinois Senate, then two terms as Illinois Secretary of State (1880–1888) John Dement (1804–1883), Receiver of Public Moneys (two tenures); U.S. representative; delegate to every Illinois Constitutional Convention during his lifetime; president pro tempore of the 1862 and 1870 conventions Nelson Dewey (1813–1889), clerk for Daniels, Dennison, and Co. in Galena for a month in 1836; first governor of Wisconsin (1848–52) Moses Dickson (1824–1901), lived for a brief time and was married in Galena; abolitionist; helped organize the International Order of Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor, the Order of Twelve, which was created in Galena and used St. Louis as its headquarters to aid slaves in the Underground Railroad. Augustus C. Dodge (1812–1883), politician; worked in his father's lead mines (1827–1837); part of the first set of senators from Iowa (1848–1855); Minister to Spain (1855–1859).