Joseph V. Quarles

Joseph V. Quarles

Joseph Very Quarles Jr. (born December 16, 1843 in Southport , Wisconsin , †  October 7, 1911 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin) was an American lawyer and politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of Wisconsin in the US Senate .

Joseph Quarles was born in 1843 in the town of Southport, which seven years later was given its current name, Kenosha. After attending school, he began studying at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor , which he interrupted to serve as a soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War . He was a member of the 39th Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment and retired with the rank of First Lieutenant . He then resumed his studies and graduated in 1866. The following year he passed the law exams at the University of Michigan Law School . He was then admitted to the bar in 1868 and began practicing in Kenosha; in the same year he married Carrie Saunders, with whom he had three sons.

From 1870 to 1876 Quarles held his first public office as a district attorney in Kenosha County . In 1876 he became mayor of his hometown before he became interested in state politics. He first served a term in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1879 before serving in the Wisconsin Senate from 1880 to 1882 . He then moved to Racine before he settled in Milwaukee in 1888.

Eventually Quarles was elected to the US Senate in Washington, DC , where he succeeded the no longer-running Democrat John L. Mitchell on March 4, 1899 . He spent a term in Congress , from which he resigned on March 3, 1905; he did not apply for re-election. Just a few days before the end of his term he was of US President Theodore Roosevelt as the successor of the Federal Court of Appeal exchanged William Henry Seaman judge at the Federal District Court appointed for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Confirmation by the Senate followed three days after he left the Chamber. Quarles remained in this post of judge until his death in October 1911.

Web links

• Joseph V. Quarles in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Joseph V. Quarles in the database of Find a Grave (English)