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HOWELL EDMUNDS JACKSON,

Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. From a Photograph by Giers & Hoellein, Nashville, Tenn.

HOWELL EDMUNDS JACKSON, TENNESSEE.

(1832

Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, by appointment of President Harrison, February 2, 1893, to succeed Mr. Justice Lamar, de ceased. He was born in Paris, Tennessee, April 8, 1832; educated at East Tennessee College, and in law at the University of Pennsylvania. He was admit

ted in 1856, and settled in Jackson; moved to Memphis in 1859. Was twice appointed a Judge of the State Supreme Court. Returned to Jackson, 1876, was elected to the Legislature, 1878, and the same year to the United States Senate. He was made United States Judge of the Sixth Circuit, by Presi dent Cleveland, in 1884, in place of Judge John Baxter, deceased, and moved to Nashville.

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His appointment to the Supreme Bench met with wide approval, and was urged by Mr. Justice Brown and Judge Taft of the United States Circuit. dent Harrison had tried many cases in his court, and had sat with him in the Senate, and knew his man. It is also remarkable that Mr. Harrison should have

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HOWELL EDMUNDS JACKSON,

Associate Justice of the Unite Stares Supreme Court.

From a Photograph by Giers & Hoellein, Nashville Tenn.

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