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A Pennsylvania-born legal colleague of AL on the Eighth Judicial Circuit, Wickizer came to Bloomington in 1847, where he served as mayor and represented McLean County in the Illinois legislature for several terms. During and after the Civil War he held a variety of federal appointments under Republican administrations. (Transactions of the McLean County Historical Society 2 [1903]; The History of McLean County, Ill. [Chicago, 1879])