Joseph Wheeler Bloodgood (May 15, 1926 – July 7, 1960) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. Bloodgood was born in Madison, Wisconsin. He attended the University of Wisconsin High School before graduating from the University of Wisconsin in 1948 and working for the United States Census Bureau in 1949 and 1950. In 1954, Bloodgood received his law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School. (His great-grandfather, Stanley Matthews, had served on the Supreme Court of the United States.)

During World War II and the Korean War, he served in the United States Navy's Pacific Fleet.

From 1951 to 1954 as a Democrat, Bloodgood was coroner of Dane County, Wisconsin. Bloodgood was elected to the Assembly in 1954. He served as the Dane County District Attorney until April 1960, when he was elected to serve as Dane County's first family court judge.

He killed himself three months later at a hospital in Madison, Wisconsin, where he was receiving psychiatric treatment.

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