Herman Thorp

Herman S. Thorp (first name also Hermon, last name also Thorpe; January 19, 1809 – February 7, 1892) was an American farmer from Bristol or Cypress, Wisconsin who served as a Free Soil Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Racine County, and a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Senate from the 8th District (Kenosha County).

Thorp was born in Connecticut in 1809, and moved to Wisconsin in 1839, settling at Bristol.

On September 3, 1844, he served as a delegate from Bristol to the Racine County Democratic Party Convention.

He served one term in the Assembly (the Second [1849] Session of the State Legislature, which convened on January 10, 1849, and adjourned April 2, 1849) from southern Racine County (the Towns of Brighton, Bristol, Paris, Salem and Wheatland) as a Free Soiler, succeeding Democrat Elias Woodworth, Jr.. At that time Thorp was living in or near Bristol. He was succeeded in the 1850 session by fellow Free Soiler George M. Robinson.

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