Wyman Spooner

Wyman Spooner (born July 2, 1795 in Hardwick , Worcester County , Massachusetts , †  November 18, 1877 in Lyons , Wisconsin ) was an American politician . Between 1864 and 1870 he was lieutenant governor of the state of Wisconsin.

Career

Wyman Spooner was initially employed in the printing trade. After studying law in Vermont and being admitted to the bar, he began working in this profession in Canton ( Ohio ) in 1835 . In 1842 he moved his residence and law firm to Elkhorn , Wisconsin Territory . Between 1847 and 1859 he was probate judge in the local Walworth County . In addition, he served as district judge in 1853. Politically, he was initially a member of the Free Soil Party . He later joined the Republican Party, founded in 1854 . He was a staunch opponent of slavery . He served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1850 and 1851, and in 1857 and 1861 . From 1862 to 1863 he was a member of the State Senate . In 1863 Spooner was elected Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin alongside James T. Lewis . He held this office after two re-elections between 1864 and 1870. He was Deputy Governor and Chairman of the State Senate. From 1866 he served under the new governor Lucius Fairchild .

After the end of his time as Lieutenant Governor, Spooner distanced himself more and more from his party. In the presidential elections of 1872 , he did not support their official candidate, the incumbent president Ulysses S. Grant , but his opponent Horace Greeley . In 1876 he officially resigned from the Republican Party and supported Democratic presidential candidate Samuel J. Tilden . Wyman Spooner died in Lyons on November 18, 1877.

Web links

• The Political Graveyard