Biographical Sketches:  JOSHUA ERIC DODGE


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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Wm. H. Froehlich, Secretary of State 1901.

page 772

JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT.

JOSHUA ERIC DODGE was born Oct. 25, 1854, In West Cambridge (now
Arlington), Middlesex county, Mass.; received his education In the
public schools of that place, Westford Academy, at Westford In the
same county, and graduated with the class of 1875 from Iowa College at
Grinnell, Ia.; graduated from the Law School of the Boston University
In 1877. He was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of
Massachusetts In that year; moved to Racine, Wis., In March, 1818, and
there continued In the general practice of the law until September,
1893, when he was appointed assistant attorney general of the United
States, which position he occupied until July, 1897, when he returned
to Wisconsin and engaged In practice at Milwaukee until his
appointment as associate justice of the supreme court upon the
resignation of Mr. Justice Pinney Nov. 22, 1898; was member of
assembly In 1891 and 1892, and was appointed a member of the Board of
Commissioners for the Promotion of Uniformity of Legislation In the
United States, April 18, 1893. Mr. Dodge was elected to a full term on
the supreme bench In April, 1901.