lieutenant predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place party office birth_date order term_start signature image article_title term_end name
william c. plunkett john h. clifford henry j. gardner 18 march 1877 leicester , massachusetts cambridge , massachusetts whig governor of massachusetts 14 february 1800 22nd january 12 , 1854 emorywashburnsignature.png ewashburn.jpg emory washburn
 january 4 , 1855 emory washburn
emory washburn

emory washburn -lrb- february 14 , 1800 -- march 18 , 1877 -rrb- was a united states lawyer , politician , and historian .
he was governor of massachusetts for one term -lrb- from 1854 to 1855 -rrb- , and served for many years on the faculty of harvard law school .
his history of the early years of the massachusetts supreme judicial court is still considered a foundational work on the subject .
born in leicester , massachusetts , washburn attended dartmouth and williams before studying law .
after establishing what grew to become a successful and distinguished law practice in worcester , washburn entered politics as a whig .
after serving several years in the state legislature , he was elected governor in 1853 .
despite his support for a reform-minded agenda , he was swept out of office on the know nothing tide in 1854 .
washburn joined the faculty of harvard law in 1856 , where he was a popular and influential figure until his retirement in 1876 .
his publications , in addition to his history of the sjc , include a history of his hometown of leicester and numerous treatises on legal subjects .
