John Coit Spooner
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John Coit Spooner was an American lawyer and Republican politician from Hudson, Wisconsin. He represented Wisconsin as a United States Senator from 1885 to 1891, then again from 1897 to 1907. In his l
Photo ca.1915
Portrait of Spooner in 1899
Spooner's grave at Forest Hill Cemetery
Robert M. La Follette
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Robert Marion La Follette Sr., nicknamed "Fighting Bob", was an American lawyer and the leading progressive politician in Wisconsin from the 1890s until his death in 1925. He served as U.S. senator fr
John Coit Spooner
…stalwart) Republican and had a bitter rivalry for supremacy in Wisconsin Republican politics against his progressive Republican contemporary U.S. senator Robert M. "Fighting Bob" La Follette. Spooner was born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, on January 6, 1843, the son of Philip Loring Spooner and Lydia (Coit) Spooner. Philip Spooner was an attorney…
Portrait by Harris & Ewing, c. 1910s
Robert M. La Follette's college yearbook photo, 1879
Portrait by C. M. Bell c. 1885–1890
La Follette c. 1898