Justice Bliss (other)
Justice Bliss may refer to: * John Murray Bliss (1771–1834), associate justice of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick * Philemon Bliss (1813–1889), chief justice of the Supreme Court of Dakota Territory, and associate justice of the Missouri Supreme Court * William L. Bliss William L. Bliss (December 13, 1876 – January 29, 1969) was a justice of the Iowa Supreme Court from September 27, 1932, to December 5, 1932, and again from January 1, 1939, to April 16, 1962, appointed from Cerro Gordo County, Iowa. Reference ...

John Murray Bliss
John Murray Bliss (22 February 1771 – 22 August 1834) was a Canadian jurist, politician and administrator. Biography Father John Murray Bliss was born in Massachusetts, the son of Massachusetts loyalist Daniel Bliss, a lawyer and British soldier who moved his family to New Brunswick in 1784 after being appointed to the first provincial council. Daniel Bliss also became chief justice of the court of common pleas. Daniel was a Harvard graduate (1760), and had left Concord, Massachusetts, and joined the British army when he was proscribed under the Massachusetts Banishment Act of 1778. In the army, he was appointed commissary. Education and career John Bliss studied law with Jonathan Sewall and Jonathan Bliss, became a lawyer in 1792, and started his practise in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He represented the county of York in the house of assembly. In 1816 he was elevated to the bench and to a seat in his majesty's council. On the decease in 1824 of Ward Chipman, who was acting a ...
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Philemon Bliss
Philemon Bliss (July 28, 1813 – August 25, 1889) was an Ohio Congressman, the first chief justice of the Supreme Court of Dakota Territory, and a Missouri Supreme Court justice. Early life and education Bliss was born in Canton, Connecticut in 1813 to Asahel Bliss and Lydia Adams (Griswold) Bliss. He attended Fairfield Academy and Hamilton College (New York), Hamilton College, where he studied law. He moved to Elyria, Ohio, where he studied law under his brother Albert A. Bliss, Albert. Career In 1840 Bliss passed the bar and began practicing law, first in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio and later in Elyria, Ohio. On November 16, 1843 he married Martha W. Thorpe. They had three children. He served as presiding judge of the 14th Judicial Circuit of Ohio from 1848 through 1851. Bliss ran for congressional office as a Republican Party (United States), republican and was elected to the United States House of Representatives. He served in the Thirty-fifth United States Congress, 34th Congress a ...
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