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Madison is the capital city of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County.The population was 269,840 as of the 2020 census, making it the second-most populous city in Wisconsin, after Milwaukee, and the 77th-most populous in the United States.
When Wisconsin became a state on May 29, 1848, no provision was made for the section of land between the St. Croix River and the Mississippi River which had previously been organized as part of Wisconsin Territory. Additionally when Iowa became a state on December 28, 1846, no provision was made for official organization of the remainder of ...
June 19, 1985 (420 Henry Mall, University of Wisconsin campus: Madison: Georgian revival-style building designed by Paul Cret and Warren Laird, built in 1912, where Elmer McCollum discovered vitamins A and B, Harry Steenbock found that vitamin D could be concentrated by irradiating food, Conrad Elvehjem isolated niacin, and Karl Link isolated the anticoagulant dicoumarol.
The history of Wisconsin includes the story of the people who have lived in Wisconsin since it became a state of the U.S., but also that of the Native American tribes who made their homeland in Wisconsin, the French and British colonists who were the first Europeans to live there, and the American settlers who lived in Wisconsin when it was a territory.
Dane County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.As of the 2020 census, the population was 561,504, making it the second-most populous county in Wisconsin after Milwaukee County. [1]
Mayoral elections in Madison, Wisconsin (8 P) Pages in category "History of Madison, Wisconsin" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
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Order Mayor Sworn In Left Office 1 Jairus C. Fairchild: 1856: 1856 2 Augustus A. Bird: 1857: 1857 3 George Baldwin Smith: 1858: 1860 4 Levi Baker Vilas: 1861