Jacob S. Boreman (August 4, 1831 – October 7, 1913) was a justice of the

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of the Utah Territory from 1873 to 1880, and again from 1885 to 1889. Born in Tyler County, Virginia (now in

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), Boreman graduated from the law department of the

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in 1855. Shortly thereafter he moved to Kansas City, where in 1861 he was elected City Attorney. From 1862 to 1868 he was judge of the Common Pleas Court of

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, and was twice elected to the Missouri State Legislature. During the

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, he raised a company of militia for the Union. In 1873, President

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appointed Boreman associate justice of the territorial Utah Supreme Court, to which Boreman was reappointed by President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877."In the Matter of the Resolutions on the Death of Hon. Jacob S. Boreman and Hon,. T. J. Anderson, Former Members of the Supreme Court of This State", ''Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of the State of Utah'' (1916), p. iii-iv. Boreman resigned from the Supreme Court Bench in 1880 to enter the practice of law in

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, in which practice he continued until 1885, when he was again appointed to the Supreme Court of Utah. When in 1889 his term expired, he moved to Ogden where he engaged in the practice of law until 1897. Boreman retired from public life in 1897, having "taken a very active part, political and legal, in three states", and living in retirement until his death, at his home on Jefferson Avenue in

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."Judge J. S. Boreman Dies At His Home On Jefferson", ''The Ogden Standard'' (October 7, 1913), p. 10."Utah State News", ''The Coalville Times'' (October 17, 1913), p. 2.

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Justices of the Utah Supreme Court 1831 births 1913 deaths People from Tyler County, West Virginia University of Virginia alumni United States Article I federal judges appointed by Ulysses S. Grant United States Article I federal judges appointed by Rutherford B. Hayes Boreman family People from Utah Territory {{US-federal-judge-stub