The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-12-27
PUBLIC
DEMAND
Citizens Of Hudson
County Want JUS
tice Lippincott Re-
appointed.
THEY HAVE FAITH IN HIM
He Has Striven Fearlessly
to Drive Law Breakers
Out of His Circuit.
SOHEOFHISEXCELLEN7WORK
He Has Driven Open Gam
bling Entirely Out Of
the County.
FOR MUNICIPAL PRoB1TY
Through His Efforts Officials
Have Been Indicted for
Misdemeanors.
FOR MUNICIPAL PROBITY
Through His Efforts Officials
Have Been Indicted for
Misdemeanors.

One of the first duties Governor Voor-
hees will be called upon TO perform when
the Legislature conyenes next month at
Trenton, viii be to send to the Senate
a nomination for Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court to succeed Justice Job II.
Lippincott. whose term will then have ex-
pired. If Governor Voorhees, should
listen to the unanimous voice of the
people of Hudson County he will send to
the Senate the name of Justice Lippin-
colt to succeed himself. For seven years
Justice Lippincott has presided over the
court of this county in such a manner
that he has gained the respect confidence
and esteem of every inha'bitant thereof
who has not spent term in some cor
rectionary institution. During that time
as a member of the Supreme Court and
the Court Of Errors and Appeals, he has
rendered decisions which have placed him
in the front ranks of the leading jurists
of the day and his utterances on legal
questions are quoted as precedents in
almost every State in the Union.
Justice Lippincott was born near Mount
HOLLY. N. J., November y, 1872 He was
reared on his fathers farm at vincen-
town, N. j., and received a common
school education. When eighteen years
of age he attended private academy at
Vincentown, conducted by John G. Her
bert, for one year. Afterward he attended
the Mount Holly Institute, under the tut
ton of the Rev. Samuel Aaron for about
year. He entered as a law student,
with EVAN Merritt, Esq, at Mount Holly
January /, 1853 During his period of ser
v-ce as law student he attended the
Dane Law School of Harvard University
at Cambridge, Mass, and in July, 1866, he
graduated therefrom with the degree of
bachelor of Laws, and at the February
term. 1867, of the Supreme Court, he was
admitted to the bar of this State
In May, 1867, he located in Hudson
county, and opened a law office at the
court house in what was then the city of
hudson. He was a member and president
OF the Board of Education of the city of
Hudson from 1868 to 1911 when the three
cities OF Bergen, Jersey City and the city
Of Hudson were consolidated into one city
In 1874 he was elected counsel of the
Board of Chosen Freeholders of the coun-
" of Hudson. which office he held, by an
nual election, for thirteen successive
years. In 1885 he was appointed by Presi-
dent Cleveland United States Attorney for
the District of New Jersey, which office
he held one year, and then resigned to ac-
cept the position of Law Judge of the
County of Hudson. to which he was ap-
pointed by Governor Green to fill the un-
expired term of Chancellor McGill, who
held that Office at the time of his appoint
ment as Chancellor.
In 1883 he was re-appointed as Law
Judge by Governor Green for a full term
of five years.