Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....DODGE, JOSHUA ERIC
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. MEMBERS OF THE FIFTY-EIGHTH
CONGRESS. UNITED STATES. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

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
Grinneil, 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 tne 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 a 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 full term on the supreme bench in
April, 1901.

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

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