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Spooner, John Coit

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Spooner, John Coit (1843-1919)

US Republican senator. A Civil War veteran and lawyer, he won fame for the railroad litigation cases he successfully argued before the US Supreme Court. Elected to the US Senate for Wisconsin; 1885-91, 1897-1907, he was author of a bill authorizing construction of the Panama Canal.

He was born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. The rise of the progressive Republicans drove him out of office and he went into private practice in New York City.



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