Chauncey Abbott (September 16, 1815 – January 30, 1872) was an American lawyer, Whig politician, and Wisconsin pioneer.
[2] He came to the Wisconsin Territory in 1841,[1] he read law and began practicing in Fort Winnebago, before moving to Mineral Point.
He then settled in Madison, where he formed a law practice with John Catlin, future secretary and acting-governor of the Wisconsin Territory.
[5][6] In the fall of 1852, he was the Whig Party's candidate for United States Congress in Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district, but was defeated.
Chauncey married for a second time in 1856, to Anne Damon Maxwell, the widow of Nathan Perkins Wells.