The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-22

of the first State Legislature, representing
Sacramento in the lower branch. BY the
succeeding Legislature he was elected
djutant-general. though at that time but
"a years of age Thomas B. Van Buren,
nominated him in the Senate, and Jesse
D. Carr in the Assembly. He left this
Office to go on the District bench. At the
end of his term as District Judge, in 1858,
he was reelected. lie went to Wasboe in
the flush times, and in 1864 he and John
r. Mcconnell and W. C.sWallace were the
Democratic nominees for Supreme Justices
of the State of Nevada. All of them were
defeated He returned to California and
located in San Francisco, where, in 1867, he
was elected County Judge for a term of
four years. In 1869 he was elected
Judge of the Twelfth District Court, run
ming as an independent candidate. In
1873 he was elected Justice of the Supreme
Court. again running as an independent
| candidate. He was born in Detroit, Mich.
Upon the resignation OF Justice McKins-
try Governor Waterman appointed John
D. Works to fill the vacancy, and at the
following election in 1888 Justice Works
! was chosen to succeed himself.
The Justices who drew the four-year
terms, Ross and Sharpstein, both remained
on the bench till the end of their terms in
succeed himself. In 1886 Justice
Ross resigned from the Supreme
bench, and at the following election for the
Supreme Court in the same year, Jackson
Tenn pie was chosen to succeed him. At
the same election A. Van r. Paterson and
Thomas 3. Mcfarland were elected to sue
coed Justices Mckee and Myrick, whose
terms had expired.
Here is an interesting bit OF history in
connection with the service of Jackson
Temple on the Supreme bench. He is one
OF the most widely known men in the
State. His own abilities at the bar and
afterward on the Superior bench of Sonoma
County gained him a great deal of fame
that was Justly earned. But the mettIe of
the man was perhaps best shown--cer-
tainly more VIGOROUSLY shown-bv his
decision in the famous trial of Ellen NJ.
Cotton, widow of the railroad millionaire.
versus Leland Stanford and the directors
of the Union Pacific Railroad. When
Jackson Temple assumed the unexpired
term of Justice Ross he began his second
term of Office on the Supreme bench, hay-
ing served as an Associate Justice on the
old Supreme bench between the years 1870
and 1872, and singularly enough his previ-
Gus term on the Supreme bench had also
been to fill an unexpired term of Justice
who resigned. 1t was Justice Sanderson,
who, having been reelected to succeed
himself, resigned in January, 1870. This
second term of Jackson Temple on the Su-
for two years later, in 1889, be. resigned
Charles n. Fox was appointed by the
Governor to fill the vacancy created in the
unexpired term of Judge Ross by the resig-
nation of Jackson Temple. Fox served
until 1891, when J. J. de Haven was elected
to serve out the unexpired term of Jackson
Temple. This term expired December.
1894, when, as the fates would have it,
Jackson Temple was elected to succeed
Justice de Haven.
Justice Sharpstein, the second to draw
the short term under the new constitution,
served out his term with much honor to
himself and in 1882 was reelected to sue
coed himself. He served ten years OF his
second term and was then gathered to his
fathers. He died in December, 1892.
Judge Fitzgerald, now the Attorney Gen
eral of California, was appointed to serve
Justice Sharpstein's unexpired term.
When that term expired, at the end of
last year, F. w. Henshaw was elected to
succeed Justice Fitzgerald. Judge Hen
shaw was reared and educated in Alameda
County. He graduated from the State
University and has served on the bench in
Alameda County in various capacities;
first as Justice of the Peace, then as Po-
lice Judge and then as Judge Of the SUI
perior Court. His career in his profession
has been a steady growth until now there
is but one judicial officer-the Chief
Justice-above him.