Charles Burlingame Waite (
Wayne County, New York, 29 January 1824 – 1909) was an American lawyer, jurist and writer.
He was educated at
Knox College, Illinois
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, country = U.S.
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, studied law at
Galesburg and
Rock Island, and was admitted to the bar in 1847. After 15 years' successful practice, chiefly in
Chicago, he was appointed by President
Abraham Lincoln in 1862 associate justice of the
Utah Supreme Court. In 1865 he resigned this post and became
district attorney of Idaho, and a year later he returned to Chicago and devoted himself to literary pursuits.
In 1854 he married
Catharine Van Valkenburg, also a lawyer and author and concerned in women's suffrage issues. They had eight children.
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He made numerous contributions to the press on suffrage and other politico-legal questions.
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1824 births
1909 deaths
People from Utah Territory
People from Idaho Territory
American lawyers
American judges
Knox College (Illinois) alumni
19th-century American judges