Louis Powell Harvey was an American politician and the seventh Governor of Wisconsin.
Harvey was born in East Haddam, Connecticut, and moved with his family to Ohio in 1828. He attended Western Reserve College and Preparatory School. He worked as a teacher for a time, and eventually moved to Kenosha, Wisconsin, then named Southport, where he founded an academy. In Southport he associated with the Whig Party and edited a Whig newspaper, the Southport American .
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