Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....CASSODAY, JOHN B.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. MEMBERS OF THE FIFTY-EIGHTH
CONGRESS. UNITED STATES. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT.

JOHN B. CASSODAY, LL. D., Beloist College, 1881, and LL.
D., University of Wisconsin, 1905, chief justice, was born
in Herkimer county, N. Y., years later.  His early
studies were pursued in the common schools, at the
academies in Wellsboro and Knoxville, Pa., and two years
at the Alfred academy, where he graduated. He spent one
year at the Michigan University and then attended the
Albany law school; afterward reading in a law office in
Wellsboro, Pa. In July, 1857, he settled in Janesville,
Wis., and continued actively in practice until called to
the supreme bench; was member of the assembly in 1865,
and again in 1877, when he was elected speaker of that
body. He was a delegate to the national convention at
Baltimore which nominated Lincoln In 1864, and was
chairman of the Wisconsin delegation to the national
convention at Chicago which nominated Garfield in 1880. In
1880, Nov. 11, he was appointed by Gov. William E. Smith,
as associate justice of the supreme court, a vacancy
having been caused by the promotion of Associate Justice
Cole to the chief justiceship to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Chief Justice Edward G. Ryan. He was
elected associate justice in April, 1881, and again in
April, 1889, and again in 1899, and is a professor in the
College of Law, University of Wisconsin, lecturing on
constitutional law, he is the author of "Cassoday on
Wills," a law test book published in 1893. He became
chief justice upon the death of Justice Orton in July,
1895, by virtue of his seniority in service, and has
continued such ever since.

Additional Comments:
Erickson, Halford.  The Blue Book of the State of
Wisconsin. Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer,
1905.

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