Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....DODGE, JOSHUA ERIC
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Author: Beck, J. D.

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
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, 1898, 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 Pin-
ney 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:
Beck, J. D. . The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin.
Madison, Wis.: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer, 1909.

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