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Stephen Haley Allen
Stephen Haley Allen (March 19, 1847 – October 26, 1931) was a justice of the Kansas Supreme Court from January 9, 1893, to January 9, 1899. Early life, education, and career Born in Sinclairville, New York, Sinclairville, Chautauqua County, New York, Allen was educated in the village school,Clark Bell, ed., ''The Medico-legal Journal'', Vol. 18 (1900), p. 74-75. until the end of his formal education in 1862.R. Alton Lee, ''Sunflower Justice: A New History of the Kansas Supreme Court'' (2014), p. 91-92. Thereafter self-taught, he studied civil engineering, and then read law with Hon. Obed Edson to gain admission to the bar in Buffalo, New York, Buffalo on May 5, 1869. Allen moved first to Missouri, and then moved to Pleasanton, Kansas, as of February 1, 1870. He practiced law there for twenty years, until 1990. Judicial service Allen was elected as a judge of the Sixth Judicial District of Kansas in November 1890. He was defeated in a bid for re-election in 1891, but in 1892 was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas Supreme Court
The Kansas Supreme Court is the highest judicial authority in the U.S. state of Kansas. Composed of seven justices, led by Chief Justice Marla Luckert, the court supervises the legal profession, administers the judicial branch, and serves as the state court of last resort in the appeals process. Functions Judicial The Kansas Supreme Court's most important duty is being the state court of last resort and the highest judicial authority in the state of Kansas. The Court rarely conducts a trial. Its judicial responsibilities include hearing direct appeals from the district courts in the most serious criminal cases and appeals in any case in which a statute has been held unconstitutional. The Court has the authority to review cases decided by the Court of Appeals and the ability to transfer cases to the U.S. Supreme Court. Administration The Kansas Supreme Court must adopt and submit to the Kansas Legislature an annual budget for the entire judicial branch of Kansas government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Thomas McDermott
George Thomas McDermott (October 21, 1886 – January 19, 1937) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. Education and career Born in Winfield, Kansas, McDermott received a Bachelor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1908 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School in 1909. He was in private practice in Topeka, Kansas from 1910 to 1917. He was in the United States Army as a Lieutenant from 1917 to 1919. He returned to private practice in Topeka from 1919 to 1928. Federal judicial service District Court service McDermott was nominated by President Calvin Coolidge on January 12, 1928, to the United States District Court for the District of Kansas, to a new seat authorized by 40 Stat. 1156. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on January 16, 1928, and received his commission the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Deaths
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. * January 30 – Charlie Chaplin comedy drama film ''City Lights'' receives its public premiere at the Los Angeles Theater with Albert Einstein as guest of honor. Contrary to the current trend in cinema, it is a silent film, but with a score by Chaplin. Critically and commercially successful from the start, it will place consistently in lists of films considered the best of all time. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong indus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1847 Births
Events January–March * January 4 – Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the U.S. government. * January 13 – The Treaty of Cahuenga ends fighting in the Mexican–American War in California. * January 16 – John C. Frémont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory. * January 17 – St. Anthony Hall fraternity is founded at Columbia University, New York City. * January 30 – Yerba Buena, California, is renamed San Francisco. * February 5 – A rescue effort, called the First Relief, leaves Johnson's Ranch to save the ill-fated Donner Party of California-bound migrants who became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada earlier this winter. Some have resorted to survival by cannibalism. * February 22 – Mexican–American War: Battle of Buena Vista – 5,000 American troops under General Zachary Taylor use their superiority in artillery to drive off 15,000 Mexican troops under Antonio López de Santa Anna, defeating the Mexicans the next day. * Febr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Redwood Smith
William Redwood Smith (1851 – October 18, 1935) was a justice of the Kansas Supreme Court from January 9, 1899 to July 1, 1905. Early life, education, and career Born in Illinois, Smith came to Kansas with his parents in 1858 and settled on a farm in Jefferson County. Two years later the family moved to Atchison, Kansas.Clark Bell, ed., ''The Medico-legal Journal'', Vol. 18 (1900), p. 76. Smith graduated from Kenyon College in Ohio, in 1872, and from the University of Michigan Law School in 1874. He then opened a law office at Atchison, and built up a lucrative practice, also serving for a time as the county attorney."William Redwood Smith", ''The Iola Register'' (October 22, 1935), p. 4. In 1892 he moved to Kansas City, Kansas, and with two other prominent lawyers, also formerly of Atchison, opened the law office of Mills, Wells & Smith. When Wells retired, it became Mills, Smith & Hobbs, until Smith retired from practice in 1898 to take a position on the state supreme court. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Mulford Valentine
Daniel Mulford Valentine (June 18, 1830 – August 5, 1907) was a member of the Kansas House of Representatives in 1862, a member of the Kansas State Senate in 1863 and 1864 and justice of the Kansas Supreme Court from January 11, 1869, to January 9, 1893. Life and education He was born June 18, 1830, in Shelby County, Ohio, where he remained until he moved to Iowa in 1854. His education was from the common schools and two academies, and he also taught school for three years while still in Ohio whilst at the same time also studying law. Valentine was a Republican, religiously independent, and an abolitionist. While young although raised a Christian he was also interested in spiritualism and wrote ''Spiritual Rapping'' in 1852 proposing a reconciliation of Christianity and spiritualism. He had journals where he contemplated thoughts on the nature of mankind and religion and they showed that his own faith moved from open mindedness in his youth to a view of man as full of si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Justices Of The Kansas Supreme Court
Following is a list of justices of the Kansas Supreme Court who are currently serving and those previously in office since the beginning of the State of Kansas in 1861. As of 2024, the Kansas Supreme Court has seven justices currently serving on the supreme bench. Justices See also * Lists of people from Kansas External linksHistory of the Kansas Supreme Court Justicesfrom the Kansas Judicial Branch. {{Lists of US Justices Justices of the Kansas Supreme Court Justices of the Kansas Supreme Court Kansas Kansas ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named a ... Justices of the Kansas Supreme Court ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Joseph Hopkins
Richard Joseph Hopkins (April 4, 1873 – August 28, 1943) was a justice of the Kansas Supreme Court and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas. Education and career Born in Jefferson City, Missouri, Hopkins received a Bachelor of Laws from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in 1901. He was in private practice in Chicago, Illinois, from 1901 to 1906, and in Garden City, Kansas, from 1906 to 1913. He was a member of the Kansas House of Representatives in 1909, and was thereafter the 19th Lieutenant Governor of Kansas, from 1911 to 1912 serving under Governor Walter R. Stubbs. Hopkins was a city attorney of Garden City from 1913 to 1918. He was the Kansas Attorney General from 1919 to 1923. He was a justice of the Kansas Supreme Court from 1923 to 1929. Federal judicial service On October 17, 1929, Hopkins was nominated by President Herbert Hoover to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Doster
Frank Doster (January 19, 1847 – February 25, 1933) was a chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court from January 11, 1897, to January 12, 1903. Early life, education, and career Born in Morgan County, Virginia in 1847, Doster spent most of his childhood on a farm in Indiana. At the age of just 15 he enlisted for the American Civil War, civil war as part of the Eleventh Indiana Cavalry. After he served in the American Civil War, civil war then returned to Indiana and started to study law. Judicial service Doster was elected district judge for Marion, Kansas in 1872, and served for multiple terms, having been elected as a Republican Party (United States), Republican. His views progressed and he evolved to other affiliations such as the Greenback Union Labor, People's, and the Bryan wing of the Democratic parties. He was considered a prominent "champion of liberal ideology" within Kansas. He has been attacked as a socialist and an anarchist due to his views on individual propert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
