John Coit Spooner
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United States Senator from Wisconsin |
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In office March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1891 |
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| Preceded by | Angus Cameron |
| Succeeded by | William F. Vilas |
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In office March 4, 1897 – April 30, 1907 |
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| Preceded by | William F. Vilas |
| Succeeded by | Isaac Stephenson |
| Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly | |
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In office 1872 |
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January 6, 1843 Lawrenceburg, Indiana |
| Died | June 11, 1919 (aged 76) New York City, New York |
| Political party | Republican |
| Children | Philip Loring Spooner |
John Coit Spooner (January 6, 1843 – June 11, 1919) was a politician and lawyer from Wisconsin. He served in the United States Senate from 1885 to 1891 and from 1897 to 1907. A Republican, by the 1890s, he was one of the "Big Four" key Republicans who largely controlled the major decisions of the Senate, along with Orville H. Platt of Connecticut, William B. Allison of Iowa and Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island. He chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, Spooner moved with his parents to Madison, Wisconsin in 1859. He attended the common schools and graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1864. During the Civil War, he enlisted as a private in the Union Army and at the close of the war was brevetted major. He served as private and military secretary to the Governor of Wisconsin, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1867, then serving as assistant attorney general of Wisconsin until 1870.
Spooner moved to Hudson, Wisconsin and practiced law there from 1870 to 1884.
He was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1872 and was a member of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.
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