Alden Sprague Sanborn

Alden Sprague Sanborn (October 21, 1820 – November 19, 1885) was an American lawyer, politician, and judge. He was the 7th Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin, serving from April 1867 to April 1868, and served as County Judge for Dane County, Wisconsin, from 1878 until his death in 1885. Sanborn also represented Dane County in the Wisconsin State Assembly for four sessions, and served as district attorney in Brown and Outagamie counties.

Biography Alden Sprague Sanborn was born in Corinth, Vermont, the second child of Amos Sanborn and his second wife, Sophia Frost. Sanborn received a common education until age 16, but did not attend college. He read law with Seth Austin, of Bradford, Vermont, and with Richard P. Marvin, at Jamestown, New York. He was admitted to the Vermont Bar Association in Orange County, Vermont, in January 1846, and moved to the Wisconsin Territory the following September, settling in Milwaukee. He taught school there, and was elected Treasurer of Milwaukee County in 1848.

Madison Mayor (1872)

Dane County Judge (1877)