Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-11-13
nenfh OF Iudge OeIlamer.

DEAN Oh JUICE SuA-sAACEa
Inthe death of Jacob Coilamer, United
States Senator from Vermont, which oc-
CURED on Thursday night last, Vermont
loses her most Henerated citizen, the Union
party a conscientious, progressive and yet
moderate member, the Senate Of the Uni-
ted States n of its ablest debaters and
most distinguished leaders, andthe nation
an upright, logical and patriotic states
man. Judge Collamer was of Revolution
ary ancestry, and was born at Troy, New
York, in 1892, being seventy-three years
of age at the time of his death. While he
was a child his family removed to Bur-
Iington, Vermont, with which State his
history has sVer since been connected.
He graduated from the University of Yer
mont at the age of eighteen, and was ad-
mitted to the bar before he was twenty,
having supported himself, though 80
young, throughout his entire preparatory
collegiate and professional course of study.
During the war of 1912, he served for a
short time as a subaltern. After leaving
the service he commenced practising
law in Northern Vermont. he took
a arm interest in politics, serving in the
Legislature several terms between 1927
and 1929. In 1888 he was elected ssso-
eiate justice of the Supreme Court of the
State, which position he held until 1912.
He represented the State in the Lower
House of Congress from ls43 to 1876,
siding with the Wing party. His services
in this capacity gave him q national repu-
tation, and when General Taylor formed
his cabinet, in 1919, Mr.. Collamer, who
had been recommended for apabinet posi-
ton by the Legislature of Vermont,
was appointed Postmaster General. He
discharged his duties with consummate
ability until the death of President Taylor,
in 1850, when he resigned, together with
the other cabinet officers. He was imme-
diately appointed to the bench of the Su-
preme Court of Vermont, holding that
position until 1854, when he was chosen
United States Senator. He was oneofthe
first to ally himself with the Republican
party at its formation, and went with that
organization into the great Union party
which has carried the war to a successful
close. He was reelected to the Senate in
1861. Last fall, on the death Of Chief
Justice fancy, he was mentioned as a can
didate for tine position, but made no effort
to secure it. The degree of LID. was
twice conferred upon HMM lS49 by the
University of Vermont and in 1857 by
Dartmouth College. He had been seri-
ously indisposed for some time preceding
his death, but that event had not been
looked for.
The death of Judge Collamer will be
seriously felt in the Senate, where his
great logical ability had made him con-
spicuous as a debater, and where his strict
honesty, and great candor and moderation,
had made him respected and trusted by
men Of all parties. Who will succeed
him it will be hard to say. Governor
Dillingham; and Hon. Justin S. Morrill, will
probably be aspirants for the position.
Hon. George P. Marsh, our minister to
Italy, would he well worthy to succeed to
the seat. Whether either of these gentle
men viii receivet the positionit is, however,
impossible to predict.