Joseph Kerr (1804 – January 22, 1855) was an American farmer, Whig politician, and Wisconsin pioneer.
[1] He was born in Ohio shortly after the state's admission to the Union, and arrived in Columbia County in the fall of 1846.
[2] When Wisconsin achieved statehood, he was elected to the Assembly's Columbia County seat as a Whig, and was re-elected in the fall of 1848 for the following year.
In November 1851 he was a founding member, and was elected First Vice-president, of the Columbia County Agricultural Society.
[5][6] At the time of his death he had been for years Chairman of the Town of Randolph Board of Supervisors, and thrice been elected Chairman of the Columbia County Board; and was a Director of the La Crosse & Milwaukee Railroad Company.