Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....SPOONER, JOHN C. January 6, 1843 -
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Author: Halford Erickson

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. MEMBERS OF THE FIFTY-EIGHTH
CONGRESS. UNITED STATES SENATORS.

JOHN C. SPOONER (Rep.), of Madison, was born at
Lawrenceburg, Dearborn county, Ind., Jan. 6, 1843;
removed with his father's family to Wisconsin and settled
at Madison June 1, 1859; graduated at the state
^university in 1864; was private in Company D, Fortieth
regiment, and captain of Company A, Fiftieth regiment,
Wisconsin infantry volunteers; was brevetted major at the
close of service; was private and miltary secretary of
Gov. Lucius Fairchild, of Wisconsin; was admitted to the
bar in 1867, and served as assistant attorney general of
the state until 1870, when he removed to Hudson, where he
practiced law from 1870 until 1884; was member of the
assembly from St. Croix county in 1872; member of the
board of regents of the Wisconsin university; was elected
United States senator to succeed Angus Cameron (Rep.), for
the term beginning March 4, 1885; was succeeded as United
States senator by W. F. Vilas March 4, 1891; was nominated
as republican candidate for governor of Wisconsin in 1892,
but was defeated; removed from Hudson to Madison in 1893
where he practiced law until re-elected United States
senator for the term beginning March 4, 1897, succeeding
W. F. Vilas (Dem.) In 1898 was tendered the position of
Secretary of the Interior, and in 1901 the attorney
generalship in McKinley's cabinet, both of which were
declined; was elected to succeed himself in the United
States senate in 1903 for the term ending March 4, 1909.

Additional Comments:
Erickson, Halford.  The Blue Book of the State of
Wisconsin. Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer,
1905.

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