Lathrop Burgess (August 31, 1805 – March 11, 1899) was an American carpenter and farmer from Brighton, Wisconsin, who spent two one-year terms as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Kenosha County; the first as a Freesoiler, the second as a Republican.
Burgess held various local offices such as justice of the peace[2] In June 1850, he was one of the founding vice-presidents of the Agricultural Society of Kenosha County.
[3] He was elected to the Assembly from the 2nd Kenosha County district (the Towns of Brighton, Bristol, Paris, Salem and Wheatland[4]) in 1851 as a Freesoiler or "Free Democrat", succeeding Henry Johnson (a Whig).
[5] By September 1854, he was a member of the new Republican Party, and a delegate to its state convention.
[6] In 1856, he was again elected to the Assembly from the same Kenosha County district, succeeding the same Henry Johnson.