Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....JONES, BURR W. March 9, 1846 - 
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MEMBERS OF SUPREME COURT

BURR W. JONES was born in the town of Union near Evansville,
Rock County, Wisconsin, March 9, 1846. He lived and worked on
a farm until about eighteen years of age, prepared for college
at Evansville Seminary, graduated at the State University in
1870 and from the Law School in 1871.

After practicing his profession for a few months in Portage he
removed to Madison, where he has lived and practised law until
September 1920.

He was District Attorney for Dane County four years, 1873-
1877, and was a member of the 48th Congress. He was chairman
of the Democratic State Convention in 1892, and of the first
State Tax Commission 1897-8. For thirty years 1885-1915 he was
professor in the Wisconsin University Law School and in 1916
there was conferred upon him by the University the degree of
LL.D. For some time he was chairman of the Dane County Bar
Association and was president of the State Bar Association in
1908. He is the author of a treatise on the law of Evidence
published in 1896 followed by several editions. He was
appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by Gov.
Emanuel L. Philipp, Sept. 3, 1920, and elected April 4, 1922,
for the term ending January, 1926.

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The Wisconsin Blue Book. The State Printing Board, 1923. 598 -
640. 

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