1899 United States Senate election in Wisconsin

1899 United States Senate election in Wisconsin
January 25, 1899 – January 31, 1899
 
Nominee Joseph V. Quarles Timothy E. Ryan
Party Republican Democratic
Legislative vote 110 18
Percentage 85.94% 14.06%
U.S. senator before election

John L. Mitchell
Democratic

 Elected U.S. Senator

Joseph V. Quarles
Republican

The 1899 United States Senate election in Wisconsin was held in the 44th Wisconsin Legislature between January 25, 1899, and January 31, 1899. Incumbent Democratic U.S. senator John L. Mitchell did not run for a second term. Republican lawyer and former state legislator Joseph V. Quarles was elected to succeed him on the sixth ballot.

In the 1899 term, Republicans held overwhelming majorities in both chambers of the Wisconsin Legislature, so had more than enough votes to elect a Republican United States senator. But an intense five-way contest for the Republican nomination left the caucus unable to select a nominee before the start of the joint convention. After a week of voting in joint convention and 93 ballots in the Republican caucus, Isaac Stephenson, Joseph W. Babcock, Samuel A. Cook, and Charles M. Webb withdrew their candidacies and endorsed Kenosha attorney Joseph V. Quarles.

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