Notes and Queries: Historical, Biographical, and Genealogical, Relating Chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania. Annual Volume, 1898 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080630412X ISBN 13: 9780806304120

Publisher: Clearfield, 2015

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...House of Representatives, and whilst there was a member of a committee that reported an address to Governor Snyder for the removal of Judge Cooper, then president judge of the Eighth Judicial district of this State, buthe put on record a strong protest against the doctrines contained in the address, and afterward became an intimate friend of Doctor Cooper, who at a later period was professor of chemistry at Dickinson College, and subsequently at the University of Pennsylvania, and ultimately became president of Columbia College, South Carolina. _ _ In 1812 he was appointed President Judge of the Eleventh Judicial district, and in 1816 an Associate Judge of the Supreme Court, and upon the death of Chief Justice Tilghman, in 1827, he was appointed Chief Justice, which position he held up to 1851, when the_judi_ciai_'y became elective, and the people had wisdom enough to retain him _in the place he had filled so well. He was for twenty-four ChiefJustice and thirteen years an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and thus spent more than half of his life on that bench, his opinions_running through seventy volumes of our reports. He was appointed to it originally, and afterwards its Chief Justice by a Democratic Governor of the State. This was under the Constitution of 1790. Under that of 1838 he was reappointed Chief Justice by a Whig Governor, and when the judiciary system was again changed hewas elected to the Supreme Bench after a nomination by a Democratic convention, and "it is said he narrowly escaped what might have been a dangerous distinction, a nomination on both of the opposing tickets.' In regard to his personal characteristics very little more is known here than in other portions of the State. His duties kept him...

Edition details

• Publisher: Clearfield
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 080630412X
• ISBN 13: 9780806304120
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 318
• Editor: Egle William Henry