Although contemporary newspapers describe him as a Republican,[1] he was officially recorded as a Union Party member.
[4] In July 1867 Youngs was a signatory (with Thomas McDill and others) to a letter calling for a meeting in Madison in order to organize a Lumberman's Association of Wisconsin.
[5] Youngs served a single one-year term in the Assembly, in a new district previously represented by Democrat Constant Martin (Kewaunee County) and Unionist Isaac Stephenson (Door County).
Youngs died on August 5, 1874, from erysipelas at his home in Ahnapee, Wisconsin.
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