Biographical Sketches: JOSHUA ERIC DODGE ********************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ File Contributed by Lori Niemuth, dawnlea@ticon.net ********************************************************************* The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under the direction of J. D. Beck, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics 1907. The Wisconsin Blue Book. VII. Biographical Sketches. Members of the Sixtieth Congress. Justices of the Supreme Court, p. 1124 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 judge of the supreme court upon the resignation of Mr. Justice Pinney Nov. 29, 1898; was a member of the 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 court bench in April, 1901.