Biographical Sketches:  John C. Spooner


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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Wm. H. Froehlich, Secretary of State 1901.

page 721.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.  MEMBERS OF THE FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
SENATORS.

JOHN C. SPOONER (Rep.), of Madison, was born Jan. 6, 1843, In
Lawrenceburg Dearborn county, Ind.; 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, in September, 1870, where he resided until 1893,
when he returned to Madison, where he has since resided, being 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 Attorneys General Charles R. Gill and S. S.
Barlow; was member of legislature from St. Croix county in 1872; he
was elected Jan. 28, 1885, to succeed Hon. Angus Cameron as United
States senator, serving from March 4, 1885, to March 4, 1891; he was
elected United States senator January 27, 1897, to succeed Hen. W. F.
Vilas, receiving every republican vote in both houses. He was
tendered by President McKinley in December, 1898, position in his
Cabinet, as Secretary of the Interior, vice Cornelius N. Bliss,
resigned, but declined it.