Henry Dodge (1782-1867), politician; operated mines in Galena. Served as Wisconsin’s first senator (1848-1857); Wisconsin’s first and fourth territorial governor (1836–41, 1845-1848); US Representative for Wisconsin territory (1841–45). Thomas Drummond (1809–1890), lawyer, had a practice in Galena (1835–50); member of the Illinois General Assembly as a Whig (1840–1841); during this time he became acquainted with fellow Whig Assemblyman Abraham Lincoln; judge for the Circuit Court of Illinois (c. 1841–1850), judge for the District of Illinois Jacob Fawcett (1847–1928), Nebraska Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Ford (1800-1850), politician; served as Illinois Governor (1842-1846). John Froelich (1849–1933), lived most of his early life and attended school in Galena; in 1892, developed the first stable gasoline/petrol-powered tractor with forward and reverse gears John H. Gear (1825–1900), 11th Governor of Iowa (1878–1882), Congressman; senator; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury 1892–1893 Joseph Gillespie (1809–1885), mined in Galena; member of the Illinois State Senate Henry Gratiot (1789–1836), trader and businessman who moved to Galena to raise his family in a free state; helped conduct a treaty that ended the Black Hawk War for the Galena area; his daughter married Elihu Washburne Moses Hallett (1834–1913), born in Galena; lawyer; moved to Colorado as a gold miner in 1860; judge on United States District Court for the District of Colorado 1877–1906 William S. Hamilton (1797–1850), son of Alexander Hamilton; captain during the Winnebago War in the volunteer Illinois Militia; commanded a company raised in Galena, the Galena Mounted Volunteers Granville Hedrick (1814–1881), leader in the Latter Day Saints movement after the 1844 succession crisis; worked in Galena lead mines, 1843–44 Stephen P. Hempstead (1812–1883), 2nd Governor of Iowa Joseph P. Hoge (1810–1891), Illinois congressman, president of the California state constitutional convention (1878), superior court judge William Henry Hooper (1813–1882), engaged in trade on the Mississippi River in the mid-1830s in Galena; later became a member of the LDS Church; Utah delegate to the United States Congress (1859–1861, 1865–1873) Thomas Hoyne (1817–1883), US District Attorney for Illinois Henry Jackson (1811–1857), operated a store in Galena; served in the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature, and in 1849 was elected to the first Minnesota Territorial Legislature; helped founded Mankato, Minnesota in 1852 Joseph Jefferson (1829–1905), at age 13 with his family performed for a year in Galena at the current site of Fried Green Tomatoes George Wallace Jones (1804–1892), one of the first two senators from Iowa; mined in Galena and owned a