Wyman Spooner

Wyman Spooner (1795–1877) was a Wisconsin politician. He was born in 1795 in Hardwick, Massachusetts, where he worked as a printer. He studied law in Vermont until, in 1835, he moved to Ohio. In 1842, he moved to Wisconsin; from 1847 until 1859 he served as Walworth County's probate judge. He became a Republican in 1854. He served multiple terms in the Wisconsin State Assembly in the 1850s and in the Wisconsin State Senate from 1862 until 1863. He served three terms as the state's lieutenant governor, from 1864 until 1870. He renounced his membership in the Republican Party in 1876. He died in 1877.

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*cite web |url=http://www.legis.state.wi.us/lrb/bb/05bb/695-743.pdf |title=Wisconsin Constitutional Officers; Lieutenant Governors |accessmonthday=October 6 |accessyear=2007 |year=2005 |month=July |format=PDF |work=State of Wisconsin Blue Book 2005–2006 |publisher=Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau |pages=31
*cite web |url=http://ltgov.wisconsin.gov/subcategory.asp?linksubcatid=2073&linkcatid=2042&linkid=1070&locid=126 |title=Wyman Spooner |accessmonthday=October 6 |accessyear=2007 |work=Office of the Lieutenant Governor

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NAME = Spooner, Wyman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Printer, judge, politician; Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
DATE OF BIRTH = 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH = Hardwick, Massachusetts, United States
DATE OF DEATH = 1877
PLACE OF DEATH = ?