The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-01-31
I0AHO's NEW SENATOR
STUDIED UNDER B0RAH
ouc BEEN PROMINENT LEADER
OF DEMOCRATIC PARTY
IN IDAHO.

Iohn r. Nugent has Deen one or Tn
,oinaut figures in Idaho politics fo
..oors He is 40 years old. He serve
chairman of the democratic stat
central committee from 1908 to 1915
!, 1914 he was defeated in the pri
nories by Ex-Governor James H
uawley for the nomination for Unite,
ctates senator on the democratic tic
let says the Boise Statesman.
The new senator is the son of Idaho
narents. Judge and Mrs. Edward Nj
cont. pioneers in the southern part Of
Tho state. His mother was visiting al
"a Grande, Ore, when he was born
His parents were then living in Sill
yer city. His father was one of the
hest known jurists Of Idaho, serving
for term as judge Of the Third jul
dicial district court.
Quit School at is.
John f. Nugent received his educa :
tion in the common schools of Silver
CITY. but he forsook the schoolroom
at the age Of 16 years. The educa-
ton he has received since then has
been largely of his own making.
When young man he worked for
time about the mines in his home
town, but soon after he attained his
majority he took up shorthand and
when his father was elected to the
district bench the son became his
court reporter
In 1895 Mr. Nugent married Miss
Della Ainslee, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Ainslee, Idaho pioneers of
Boise. A year later they went to
Australia, where Mr.. Nugent was SUI
perintendent of some mining proper
ties owned by an English syndicate.
Soon after his return to Idaho
year and half later he took up the
study of law, and through the assist
ance Of William E. Borah passed the
bar examination at Idaho City in 1898.
The same year he was elected prose-
cutting attorney in Owyhee county. He
vas then 80 years old.
Mr.. Nugent continued to serve as
prosecuting attorney of Owyhee coun.
ty until 1906.
Counsel in Haywood Trial.
About the time that he was admit
ted to the practice of law and hung
out his shingle in Silver City, the old
Owyhee county mining town became
he home of William D. Haywood,
pracopt had IF tho w w The |
two men became friends there and
Mr.. Nugent was retained as counsel
the Western Federation of Miners
ough the influence of HAYWOOD.
he friendship formed at Silver City |
t. Nugents being retained to as
sist in the defense of Haywood Geo. |
A Pettibone and Charles H. Meyer
r Heers of the Western Federation,
following the murder of Ex-Governor |
Fr nix Stunenberg at Caldwell in 1905.
Mr.. Nugent removed from Silver
~ity to Boise in 1906 and since that |
ne he has made this city his home
He and Mrs. Nugent live at 306 Warm
springs avenue. They have one child,
a son, Lieutenant G. A. Nugent Of the
S1Sth infantry.
Early Friend of Borah.
In many ways senator Nugent's rise
in public life has paralleled the path
beaten out by Senator W. E. Borah
Cor himself. A quarter of century
go the two men were great friends,
but of late years their relations have
been strained and it is with interest
that their friends will watch the two
1t the national capital. They repre-
sent the progressive" factions in their
respective parties.
When Borah came to Idaho in the
summer Of 1890 and opened up a law
Office in Boise he was without friends
here. Judge Edward Nugent was
elected to the district bench a short
time after Borah began the practice
of law in this state John F. Nugent,
Borah's junior by three years, became
his fathers court reporter.
Elder Nusent Fancied Borah.
Judge Nugent, taking a fancy to
Borah, did much to help him build
up his law practice, throwing what
business he could to the younger man.
Borah a few years later repaid the
father by helping the younger Nugent
master the law and largely due to his
efforts John F. Nugent was able to
pass the bar examination at Idaho
City in 1898.
The new senator was 30 years old
when he went to Idaho City with
Borah to try for the bar examination
He had left school at the age or IT,
but by taking advantage of the OPP
portunities offered him when he was
court reporter and by studying law
at home and in Borah's office he
was able to pass the examination and
later win from the state supreme court
license to practice law.
Immediately after he had been ad-
mitted to the bar he returned to his
boyhood home at Silver City, where
he was elected prosecuting attorney
Tor Owyhee county.
1t was through Haywood's influ-
ence that Nugent was retained as
counsel by the miners in the late min