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| Fur Trader and Chief Justice |
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| Biography of fur trader and chief justice of the Brown County Court Jacques Porlier. |
| Lawyer, Politician and Judge |
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| Biography of lawyer, politician and judge Edward George Ryan. |
| Wisconsin Civil War Officer, Lawyer, Politician, 6th Wisconsin Governor, Presidential Cabinet Member |
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| Brief biography of lawyer, judge and politician Alexander W. Randall, who served as the sixth Governor of Wisconsin from 1858 until 1861. |
| United States Supreme Court Justice |
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| Biography of William H. Rehnquist, who was born in Milwaukee and went on to serve as an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. |
| A brief history of the Barstow-Bashford Affair of 1856. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Desk used by Milwaukee Alder Vel Phillips, made by the Northwestern Furniture Company for Milwaukee City Hall, 1895. (Museum object #2007.16.1) |
| Wisconsin's first and only legal execution was for spousal murder in the 1800s. Read about past efforts to re-establish the death penalty in the state. |
| Read a biographical account of the governor of the Wisconsin territory who was largely responsible for the selection of Madison as Wisconsin's capital. |
| Civil Rights Law |
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| Learn about the Milwaukee based lawyer who won two of Wisconsin's most important civil rights cases and was on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. |
| Date: | 10 06 1944 |
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| Description: | General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks with General George C. Marshall at an airfield in Paris, France. The man behind Marshall's elbow is Senior Advisor to P... |
| Date: | 10 31 1958 |
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| Description: | Four club members are shown at the Alumni W club's fifth annual meeting. They include, from left to right: Alex London, 1932; Circuit Judge Richard Bardwel... |
| Date: | 10 06 1944 |
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| Description: | General Dwight D. Eisenhower (SHAEF commander) poses with (left to right) General George C. Marshall (Army Chief of Staff), Justice James F. Byrnes (Senior... |
| Date: | 03 25 1959 |
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| Description: | Diana Smith visits with Justice Harold Hallows, left, and Stewart G. Honeck. Smith and Honeck are candidates for the Wisconsin Supreme Court and were speci... |
| Date: | 03 25 1959 |
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| Description: | Two candidates for Dane County judgeship attend the dinner meeting during the Madison League of Women Voters convention at the Unitarian Meeting House. Mrs... |
| Date: | 04 08 1961 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips stands while speaking with Arthur Goldberg, former Secretary of Labor and, at the time of the photograph, Supreme Court Justice. Another man c... |
| Date: | 05 12 1959 |
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| Description: | Among the attendees at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Dane County chapter of the American Red Cross are, left to right, Supreme Court Justice Timothy ... |
| Date: | 05 12 1959 |
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| Description: | Among the attendees at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Dane County chapter of the American Red Cross are, left to right: Katherine Edwards and her sist... |
| Date: | 07 27 1959 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of three judges for the Wisconsin State Journal's annual Cook Book Recipe Contest. Left to right are Mrs. Alice Ferguson, home servic... |
| Date: | 08 03 1959 |
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| Description: | Madison Federal Court Judge Patrick T. Stone greets members of the Conference of United States Court Reporters at their convention at the Edgewater Hotel i... |
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