Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1877-02-07
Personnel Of the Electoral
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who will therefore be its president
was born in New Hampshire, Au
gust 1s, 1903. He studied law
and after being admitted to the bar
removed to Maine in 1927. II
1880. 81 and 80 he was elected tc
the Maine House of Representa-
tives, occupying the post Of Speak
err during the last two years. II
1884 he was appointed Attorney
General for the State of Maine, al
Office which he held four years. Al
the close Of his term he was elect
ed to the National House OF Rep
resentatives, and was reelected IL
1S41. In 1916 he was appointed
Attorney General of the United
States by President Polk, which of,
fice he held until March, 1s47, when
he was appointed Commissioner tc
Mexico. When peace was declar'
ed between this country and Mex
leo he was appointed Minister to
that republic. lie returned to the
United States in 1S49, settled in
Portland and devoted himself tc
his profession. In 1853 he was ap-
pointed by President Buchanan as
Associate Justice Of the Supreme
Court. In point Of years, Judge
Clifford is the oldest member of the
commission.
Justice Samuel F. Miller was
horn in Kentucky, April 5, 1916,
Medicine was his first chosen pro-
fession, but after practicing it for
some years, abandoned it for the
law. He removed from Kentucky
to Iowa in 1850, and when the Re-
publican party was formed, became
one of its leaders in the latter State.
He never held public office, prefer
ring the practice Of his profession
to public honors. In 1862 he was
appointed Associate Justice by
President Lincoln.
Justice Stephen J. Field was
born in Connecticut, November 4,
1916. He is a son of David Dudley
Field, d. D., and brother of Da-
vid Dudley, Gyms W. and Henry
M. Field. After graduating from
Williams College in 1887, he stud
led law in New York city with his
brother, David Dudley, with whom
he formed q law partnership. He
settled in California in 1S49, was
first Alcalde of Maysville in 1850
and elected to the Legislature in
the same year. In 1857 he was
elected a Judge of the State Su-
preme Court and became its Chief
Justice, and was appointed Associ-
ate Justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States by President
Lincoln in 1863.
Justice William Strong was born
in Connecticut, May 6, 1908. He
graduated at Yale College in 1898.
He taught school in Connecticut
and New Jersey; studied law, and
was admitted to the bar in Phila-
delphia in 1882. He was elected
to the Thirtieth Congress in 1916,
and reelected in 1913. In 1867 he
was elected a Judge Of the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania for fifteen
years, but after holding the posi-
ton eleven years resigned. In
1870 he was appointed Associate
Justice Of the Supreme Court of
the United States by President
Grant.
Senator George F. Edmunds, of
Vermont, was born in the State
which he now represents in the
Senate, February /, 1928, and
therefore will signalize his forty
ninth birthday by the beginning of
his service on the electoral commits
sion. He is a lawyer by profession,
and was member of the Vermont
House of Representatives from
1854 to 1859 inclusive, and served
three years as speaker. He was q
member of the State Senate in
1852. On the death OF Solomon
Foot, he was appointed to the va
cancy in the United States Senate
thereby occasioned, and took his
seat April 5, 1866. He was elect
ed by the Legislature for the re-
mainder Of the term ending March
4, 1869, reelected for the term
ending 1875, and reelected for the
term ending in 1881.
Senator Oliver p. Morton, OF In
diana, was born 10 Indiana In 1923,
and, like all the members OF the
commission, is lawyer by profess
sion. He was elected Circuit Judge
N A. rr.r.l ct. Ut. I.