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), who represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. Senate.

Joseph Quarles was born in 1843 in the town of Southport, seven years later received its present name in Kenosha. After school he began studying at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, but he interrupted to serve during the Civil War as a soldier in the Union Army. He belonged to the 39th Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteer and retired with the rank of First Lieutenant in the service of. Then he took up his studies again and took his degree in 1866. The following year he passed the legal examination at the Law School of the University of Michigan. Subsequently, he was admitted to the bar in 1868 and commenced practice 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 district attorney in Kenosha County. In 1876 he was mayor of his hometown, before he began to be interested in the state policy. First, he graduated in 1879 a term in the Wisconsin State Assembly before to 1882 he was a member of the Senate from Wisconsin from 1880. After that, he first moved to Racine, before he settled in 1888 in Milwaukee.

Finally, Quarles was in the U.S. Senate in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of not more candidates Democrat John L. Mitchell on March 4, 1899. He spent a term in Congress, from which he retired again on March 3, 1905; to the re-election he was not applied. Just a few days before the end of his term of office he had been appointed by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt as the successor of the Federal Court of Appeal exchanged William Henry Seaman judge at the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. The confirmation by the Senate followed three days after leaving the chamber. Quarles remained there until his death in October 1911 this judge posts.

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