Grégoire Dupont

Dupont was born in Belgium in 1842, and immigrated to Wisconsin in 1855.^[2] He married fellow Belgian Julie Henrion at Bay Settlement, Wisconsin, in 1862, and they had nine children together.^[2] At various points in his life, Dupont was occupied as a shingle mill laborer, photographer and farmer.^[3] He lived in Robinsonville, Wisconsin.^[4]

Dupont was a member of the 18th Wisconsin Infantry in the American Civil War.^[5] He served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1887 as the representative for northeastern Brown County. Dupont was one of the first Belgian-Americans from northeast Wisconsin to serve in the Assembly; others included Joseph Wery, Constant Martin, Benjamin Fontaine and John B. Eugene.^[1] Dupont was also a school board member, the town chairman for Green Bay, a Brown County supervisor for the town of Green Bay and a member of the Green Bay Dairy Board of Trade.^[6][7][4]

Dupont died on July 1, 1917.