Papers, 1918-1956.

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Papers, 1918-1956.

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Personal papers of a Dane County, Wisconsin Circuit Court judge, including correspondence, reminiscences, photographs, financial records, newspaper clippings, and campaign materials. The files document his campaign for state Supreme Court, his military history, political activities, his social life, and his family.

7.2 c.f. (18 archives boxes); plusadditions of 5.5 c.f.,201 photographs,1 negative,196 transparencies,12 postcard drawings,1 booklet, andca. 50 pieces of ephemera,

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin. Circuit Court (Dane County)

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Wisconsin. Supreme Court

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The basic powers and framework of Wisconsin's court system is laid out in Article VII of the state constitution. Judicial power was vested in a Supreme Court, circuit courts, courts of probate, and justices of the peace. According to the 1848 constitution, the state was divided into 5 judicial circuit districts and the five judges presiding over these circuits were to meet at least once a year at Madison as a Supreme Court until the legislature could establish the Supreme Court as a...