Bon Homme County embraced the Fifth Council District and the Seventh Representative District. Under the governor’s proclamation of 1861, and at the election in September elected John Shober, councilman, by fiftytwo votes, no opposition; and for representative chose George M. Pinney, by fifty-three votes, and Reuben Wallace, by fifty-one votes.
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