James Rolfe (legislator)

In November 1854 Rolfe was one of three committee members appointed by Washington County's Board of Supervisors who negotiated a final settlement of financial controversies deriving from the division of Ozaukee County from that county in the spring of 1853. He held various town offices as well.^[3]

At the time of Rolfe's 1854 election to the Senate, the 4th District consisted of the Towns of Erin, Richfield, Germantown, Jackson, Polk, Hartford, Addison, West Bend, Newark, Trenton, Farmington, Kewaskum and Wayne, in Washington County It had been represented by Baltus Mantz, a Democrat from Meeker who died in office of cholera.

Rolfe was succeeded in 1856 by former incumbent Baruch Schleisinger Weil, a Democrat from Schleisingerville.

Matilda Rolfe died in 1859, by which time the two of them had had four children, three daughters and one son. Rolfe died on April 1, 1888, at the Rock County Asylum in Johnstown Center, Wisconsin.^[4]