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Jonathan Dixon (July 6, 1839 – May 21, 1906) was an American jurist and Republican party
Biography of Leon Abbet
Dixon continued to serve as Supreme Court Justice until his death. He died in 1906 at his daughter's home in Englewood, New Jersey at the age of 66.
Jonathan Dixon (July 6, 1839 – May 21, 1906) was an American jurist and Republican party politician
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from New Jersey
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. He was an Associate Justice
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of the New Jersey Supreme Court
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and was the Republican nominee for Governor of New Jersey
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in 1883.
Biography
Dixon was born inLiverpool, England
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on July 6, 1839. His father, also named Jonathan Dixon, came to the United States in 1848 and was followed in 1850 by his family, settling in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He graduated from Rutgers College
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in 1859 and was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1862. He moved to Jersey City to practice law in 1865.
Dixon was associated with New Jersey Supreme Court
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Justice Gilbert Collins
Gilbert Collins (August 26, 1846 – January 29, 1920) was the 23rd mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey from May 5, 1884, to May 2, 1886.
Biography
Collins was born on August 26, 1846, in Stonington, Connecticut the son of Sarah Quinn and Daniel W ...
until 1875, when he was appointed to be a Supreme Court Justice by Governor Joseph D. Bedle. He was subsequently reappointed by Governors Ludlow
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, Green
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, Griggs, and Murphy.
In February 1880 the socialist leader Joseph Patrick McDonnell, editor of the ''Labor Standard'', was tried for libel after publishing a letter from a brick maker who said of the Clark & Van Blarcom brickyard that the men were overworked and starved, and housed in places no better than pigsties.
Dixon presided over the much-publicized trial, earning a reputation for being anti-labor.
McDonnell was convicted and sentenced to two months in jail. When he was released on 1 April 1880 he was met by a cheering crowd.
Dixon declined to take an active part in politics, and even when New Jersey Republicans nominated him for governor in 1883, he refused to make political speeches, since he felt it would be beneath the dignity of a Supreme Court Justice.
McDonnell used the ''Labor Standard'' to attack Dixon as anti-labor and anti-union, and threw his support behind Leon Abbett
Leon Abbett (October 8, 1836December 4, 1894) was an American Democratic Party politician and lawyer who served two nonconsecutive terms as the 26th Governor of New Jersey from 1884 to 1887 and 1890 to 1893. His official state biography refers t ...
, giving a useful boost to the Democratic candidate.
Abbett, also from Jersey City, attacked Dixon for drafting the "thieves' charter" that deprived the Jersey City Irish of power in 1871. Abbett also criticized Dixon for handing down Supreme Court rulings that were perceived as anti-labor. Abbett defeated Dixon by a margin of 103,856 to 97,047.New Jersey State Library
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.References
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