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James Lafferty (Wisconsin politician)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ20707287 ↗
Source-derived summary

James Lafferty was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1874. He was a member of the Democratic Party.

Lafferty was born in Cohoes, New York on August 3, 1837. He lived in Empire, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “James Lafferty (Wisconsin politician)” is politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through James, Lafferty and Wisconsin, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1874, 1837—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1837-08-03. For this dossier, James, Lafferty and Wisconsin is the immediate research focus.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20707287. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1874 and 1837.

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This entry incorporates text from “James Lafferty (Wisconsin politician)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.