Wiram Knowlton (January 24, 1816 – June 27, 1863) was an American politician and jurist from Wisconsin.
Born in Canandaigua, New York, Knowlton moved to Janesville, Wisconsin Territory, in 1837 and began to study law.
He was admitted to the bar in 1840 and started a law practice in Prairie du Chien, where he was also elected to the Wisconsin Territorial Council (upper house of the Territorial Legislature) from 1845 to 1847.
He was elected captain of the company and they were stationed at Fort Winnebago for frontier duty, freeing up the regular garrison to be redeployed to the south.
[1] This changed in 1853, when a separate supreme court was created by an act of the Wisconsin Legislature.