Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....DODGE, JOSHUA ERIC 
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Author: Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903.

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, 1878, 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, l893. Mr. Dodge was elected to full term on the
supreme bench in April, 1901.

Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin. Compiled and
Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson,
Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903. 1069
- 1117.

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