The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-14
Governor Baldwin
 Has National Fame

Governor Simeon Eben Baldwin. who was rendered a unanimous re- nomination for governor by the Dem l ocratic convention, is a citizen of in- ternational reputation as a jurist. He has demonstrated during his two years of efficient administration of affairs of state that he combines to @ remark able degree administrative talent with the judicial temperament. It was shortly after his retirement from the position of chief justice of the supreme court of Connecticut in 1910, that the citizens first turned to him a pos sible candidate for the governorsl1ip. The. nomination was given to him unanimously and his election follow ed after a spirited campaign in which qualities as a stump speaker. His ad- miniStration of the state goVernn1 ent has made history, and he has attain ed rank among the very great of the governors of this old commonwealth. He has been a progressive along sane lines and his Democratic conduct of to the hearts of the citizens irrespec- tive of partisan ties.
 Native of New Haven.
 The governor is a native of New Haven, having been born, February 5, 184O the youngest son of Roger Sher- man Baldwin, governor of Connecticut and United States Senator, who was a son of Simeon Baldwin, representa- tive in congress and associate judge of the Supreme Court of Errors, and a grandson of Roger Sherman, signer of the Declaration of Independence and a leader in the convention of 1787,; which framed the constitution of the United States. On his mothers side he is a descendant of Governors Haynes, Wyllys and Pitkin of Connec- ticut. His education was received at the Hopkins grammar school of New Haven, Yale college the Yale and Har- yard law schools and he was admitted Haven in 1863. He practiced before the courts of the. state, the United States court and occasionally the courts of Massachusetts, and argued cases in the United States Supreme court for thirty years.
 In 1869 he became an instructor in the Yale Law school and in 1872 a q the Yale Law school even after his election as governor. He teaches con- stitutional law, railroad law and pri- tured before the leading law schools of the country. He has suggested and carried through many reforms in the laws of the state and in the procedure in the courts as we'll. and in 1855, as a member of the commission to study reforms in methods of taxation he was 1ation which added largely 70 the reve- nues of the state.
 Founder American Bar Association.
 Judge Baldwin is accredited with the honor of having founded the Arneri- can Bar association by which he has been many times honored. In 1893 he was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of the state and in 1887 he was made chief justice holding the honor until the age limit forced his retirement.
 Governor Baldwin has been presi- dent of the New Haven Colony His torical association, the American Bar association, the Association of Amer ican Law schools, the International
 aW Lay, assoeiation and t,d the IA Ameriean can can Society for the Judicial Settle ment of International Disputes, the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sci ences, and is a director of the bureau of comparative law of the American Bar association. He is a member of the American Antiquarian society. the American Philosophical society, and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, a fellow of the American As sociation for the Advancement of Se1- the Massachusetts Historical society. the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, and the Institute de Droit Compare of Brussels He received the honorary degree of LLD-,z from. Harvard in 1s91J and from Columbia in 1911.
 In 1900 the governor was under ap- pointment from the department of state, a delegate from the United States, to the Congress of Interna- tiona1 Penitentiare at Brussels and in 1905 at Budapest. In 1904 he was the president for the United States of the Universal Congress of Jurists and Lawyers at St. Louis.
 Connecticut Choice for President.
 At the Democratic state convention held in Bridgeport on May ?, 1912, a resolution was unanimously passed that Connecticut present the name of the governor to the Baltimore conven- ton as the Democratic candidate for president of the United States. Gov ernor Baldwin has been honorede at home and abroad. He is in posses sion of sturdy vigor of body to match the brilliancy of his mind and his oc- cupancy of the post of governor of the state throughout the civilized world His reelection is already con- ceded by his opponents.-E1artford Times.