Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....QUARLES, JOSEPH VERY 
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Author: Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903.

MEMBERS OF THE FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.

UNITED STATES SENATORS.

JOSEPH VERY QUARLES (Rep.), of Milwaukee, was born at
Kenosha, Wis., (then Southport), Dec. 16, 1843. In 1862 he
entered the University of Michigan, but interrupted tis
course of study in the spring of 1864 to enter the army as
private in the 39th Wisconsin volunteers. He was mustered
out as First Lieutenant, Co. C, and returned to his studies,
graduating in 1866. He then studied law, and in 1868 formed
at Kenosha a partnership with Mr. O. S. Head, one of the
oldest and ablest practitioners of the state. Mr. Quarles
was district attorney for Kenosha county for six years,
mayor of Kenosha in 1876, member of the assembly in 1879,
and state senator from 1880-1882. In the United States
senatorial contest of 1881 Mr. Quarles received a very
flattering vote, but insisted upon having his name
withdrawn. At the expiration of his term of office he moved
to Racine, Wis., where he entered into partnership with the
present justice of the Supreme court, John B. Winslow. Six
years later he made Milwaukee his home, and there organized
the law firm of Quarles, Spence & Quarles, of which, he is
the senior member. Mr. Quarles was elected to the United
States senate and entered upon his duties March 4, 1899. His
term will expire March 4, 1905.

Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin. Compiled and
Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson,
Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903. 1069
- 1117.

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