Joel Cook Squires (December 11, 1819 – March 3, 1889) was an American carpenter, miner, Wisconsin pioneer, and Democratic politician.
Squires was born in Vienna Township, Ohio, on December 11, 1819, and attended the public schools.
[1] At that time a resident of Lancaster, Squires was elected to the State Senate from the Sixth District for the 1852 session.
On May 1, 1853, he resigned from the Senate; fellow Democrat James Wilson Seaton of Potosi was elected to fill his seat.
In 1870, now living in Platteville and working as a miner, he was elected for a single year term from the first Grant County Assembly district (the Towns of Hazel Green, Smeltzer and Platteville), succeeding Republican Joseph Harris.