The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-02-08
The Grand Commission.

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The five Associate Justices of the sSu-
preme Court, who are members of the
Grand Commission, are Judges Clifford,
Strong, Miller, Field and Bradley.
The first of these, who will bePresident
of the Commission, is Judge Nathan
Clifford, now in his seventy-fourth year,
who has been nineteen years on the Su-
preme Bench. He has always been
Democrat in politics. From 1880 to 1884
.he served in the Maine Legislature, and
was then appointed Attorney General.
From 1889 to 1843 he represented Maine
In Congress. In 1916, President Polk
appointed him Attorney General of the
United States, which Office he held until
1S47, when he was appointed Commis-
.sioner to Mexico. On the conclusion of
the Mexican war he was appointed Uni.
ted States Minister to Mexico. On his
return to the United States, he settled
down to the practice of law in Portland,
Me-, until January, 1858, when President
Buchanan appointed him to the Supreme
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Judge William Strong is in the sixty
ninth year ofshiss age, and has been seven
years on the Supreme Bench He be-
came member of the Pennsylvania Bar
in 1882, and practiced law at Reading,
until 1847.S Inlthat year he entered Con
gress and served two terms. He became
Judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsyl-
vania in 1857, and held the position until
1868, after which he practiced law in
Philadelphia until February 1870, when
he was appointed to the Supreme Court
of the United States by President Grant.
eIns June, 1871, he made q adecision de.
claring the Income tax constitutional, and
in January, 1872, delivered the opinion
of the Court affirming the constitutional
itys of the Legal Tender act of 1852.
Judge Strong isa Republican.
Judge Samuel F. Miller will be 81 in
April, and has been nearly fifteen years
on the Supreme Bench. Heis q native
of Kentucky and at FIRST practiced medi-
cine, but after few years turned his at
tention to law. He, removed in 1850
from Kentucky to Iowa, where he became
one of the leaders Of the Republican
party in that State. He: was pressed re-
peatedly to accept nominations for public
Office at the hands of. the Republicans,
but refused these and confined himself
strictly to the practice of his profession.
In July, 1852. President Lincoln appoin-
ted him to the Supreme Bench.
Judge Sterhen j. Field is a brother of
Cyrus w. Field, ,of ocean telegraph fame,
and David Dudley Field, who has within
a few weeks heen sent to Congress from
New Y York TO flrthe'place ofSnith Ely.
Justice Field is eleven years the junior
|Sof his Congressional brother, being now
in his sixty.iirst year. He has been near
~ fourteen years on the Supreme Court
Bench. Born in Connecticut, he removed
when he came of age to New York city,
where he studied law with his brother,
and afterward. made law partnership
with him. In 1849 he removed to Cali
fornia, and at the beginning Of the fol-
lowing year was elected First Alcade of
the City Of Marysville. In October of
that year he vas elected to the Legisla-
tnre, andstool a leading partin moulding
the Judiciary of the State. He was cleo
ted in 1857 Judge of the Supreme Court
of Californis for six years, and became
Chief Justice of that Court. In March,
1868, he was appointed by President Lin
coin to the United States Supreme Court.
and has the States of the Pacific slope
for his Circuit Although appointed by
President Lincoln, his political affiliations
are known To be with the Democrats.
Judge Joseph p. Bradley, the fifth
Ynarphor of tl,a Com n, ico;ny, tuou opnoin.