Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Spooner, John C. 
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Source: Compiled and Published under under the direction of Henry Casson
Author: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1897

JOHN C. SPOONER (Rep.), of Madison, was born January 6, 1843, in Lawrenceburgh, 
Dearborn county, Indiana; was educated at the University of Wisconsin, from 
which institution he graduated in 1864; came to Wisconsin June 1, 1859, and 
settled at Madison; removed from Madison to Hudson, Wis., in September, 1870, 
where he resided until 1893, when he returned to Madison, where he has since 
resided; is by profession a lawyer; he entered the war as a private in Co. D, 
40th Wis. Inf. Vols.; was Captain of Co. A, 50th Wis. Inf. Vols., and at the 
close of service was brevetted major; was private and military secretary to 
Gov. Lucius Fairchild for a time and was assistant attorney general under 
Attorney Generals Charles R. Gill and S. S. Barlow; was member of legislature 
from St. Croix county in 1872; he was elected January 28, 1885, to succeed Hon. 
Angus Cameron as United States senator, serving from March 4, 1885, to March 4, 
1891; was nom-inated by the republicans for governor of Wisconsin in 1892, but 
was defeated; he was nominated and elected United States senator January 27, 
1897, to succeed Hon. W. F. Vilas, receiving every republican vote in both 
houses.

Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Henry Casson, Secretary of State 1897.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
MEMBERS OP THE FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
SENATORS.
page 651

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