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United States Court For The Indian Territory
The United States Court for the Indian Territory was a Federal Court of the United States in Indian Territory between 1889 and November 16, 1907, the day Oklahoma was admitted as a U.S. state. History In 1889, the United States Congress created a federal court with jurisdiction over Indian Territory. The court heard criminal cases not punishable by death or hard labor and civil cases were a U.S. citizen was party. In 1891, the Judiciary Act of 1891 made the appellate court for Indian Territory the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. The courts were abolished with Oklahoma statehood on November 16, 1907. Judges Originally, the court had one judge, but in 1895 the court was divided into a northern, central, and southern district. James M. Shackelford was appointed by President Benjamin Harrison as the first judge of the court in 1889. Charles Bingley Stuart was appointed by President Grover Cleveland to replace Shackelford on March 27, 1893. When the court was divided into a northern, cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Court Of The United States
The federal judiciary of the United States is one of the three branches of the federal government of the United States organized under the United States Constitution and laws of the federal government. The U.S. federal judiciary consists primarily of the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals, and the U.S. District Courts. It also includes a variety of other lesser federal tribunals. Article III of the Constitution requires the establishment of a Supreme Court and permits the Congress to create other federal courts and place limitations on their jurisdiction. Article III states that federal judges are appointed by the president with the consent of the Senate to serve until they resign, are impeached and convicted, or die. Courts All federal courts can be readily identified by the words "United States" (abbreviated to "U.S.") in their official names; no state court may include this designation as part of its name. The federal courts are generally divided between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William McKinley
William McKinley (January 29, 1843September 14, 1901) was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. As a politician he led a realignment that made his Republican Party largely dominant in the industrial states and nationwide until the 1930s. He presided over victory in the Spanish–American War of 1898; gained control of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Cuba; restored prosperity after a deep depression; rejected the inflationary monetary policy of free silver, keeping the nation on the gold standard; and raised protective tariffs to boost American industry and keep wages high. A Republican, McKinley was the last president to have served in the American Civil War; he was the only one to begin his service as an enlisted man, and end as a brevet major. After the war, he settled in Canton, Ohio, where he practiced law and married Ida Saxton. In 1876, McKinley was elected to Congress, where he became the Republican expe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Yancey Lewis
William Yancey Lewis (August 24, 1861 - March 10, 1915) was an American judge who served on the United States Court for the Indian Territory between 1895 and 1897. Biography William Yancey Lewis was born on August 24, 1861, to Everett Lewis and Alice Strickland in Gonzales, Texas. After attending public schools in Gonzales, he received an appointment to West Point, but failed his math exam. He declined a reappointment and instead attended Emory and Henry College graduating in 1881. He attended law school at the University of Texas and graduated in 1885. He was a delegate to the 1892 Democratic National Convention. He founded a law firm with Charles Bingley Stuart, married Lulie Sanford in 1884, and moved to Ardmore, Indian Territory in 1895. He represented Indian Territory at the 1900 Democratic National Convention. Lewis was appointed to the Central District of the United States Court for the Indian Territory by President Grover Cleveland in 1895, replacing his former law partner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Sulzbacher
Louis Sulzbacher (May 10, 1842 – January 17, 1915) was the first continental American appointed as Associate Justice of the newly created Supreme Court of Puerto Rico in 1900. Appointed by President William McKinley he assumed his post in August 1900 and served until 1904. Early life and family Louis M. Sulzbacher was born in Kirchheimbolanden, Kingdom of Bavaria on May 10, 1842, to Jacob Sulzbacher and Regina Schwarz. Jacob was a professor and writer for several newspapers, while Regina was German language scholar educated in Paris. The Sulzbacher family was Jewish and claimed descendancy from Saul Wahl and Rashi. He studied in Frankfurt and was fluent in English, German, Greek, Spanish, French and Latin. Move to United States He moved to the United States in 1859 and settled in New Mexico Territory where he read the law. In 1870, he was admitted to the territorial bar before starting a law practice in Las Vegas. He married Paulina Flersheim in Kansas City, Missouri, in 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Dickerson
Joseph Thomas Dickerson was an American judge and politician who served on the United States Court for the Indian Territory between 1904 and 1907, in the Oklahoma House of Representatives between 1914 and 1916, and as an appointed judge in Oklahoma County. Early life and career Joseph Thomas Dickerson was born to Thomas and Hannah Dickerson on January 8, 1864, in Lewisburg, Ohio. His family moved to Iowa before settling in Kansas where he attended the University of Kansas; he graduated in 1887. An active member of the Republican Party, he practiced law in Marion, Kansas and was close with U.S. Senator Charles Curtis. Judgeships and political career In 1904, the United States Congress created four additional judgeships for Indian Territory and Dickerson was appointed to fill one of the new seats in the Southern District by Theodore Roosevelt; he served until statehood. After statehood, he served on the State Board of Affairs. He ran as the Republican Party's nominee in the 1912 U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ridgway Lawrence
William Ridgway Lawrence (January 14, 1840 – July 31, 1923) was an American judge who served on the United States Court for the Indian Territory between 1904 and Oklahoma statehood on November 16, 1907. Biography William Ridgway Lawrence was born on January 14, 1840, to John and Eliza Lawrence in Bloomington, Indiana. The family soon moved to Illinois. Lawrence joined the Union Army during the American Civil War, serving as a lieutenant in the 73rd Illinois Infantry Regiment. He was captured at the Battle of Chickamauga and spent the rest of the war as a prisoner of war at Libby Prison. After the war he returned to Bloomington and read the law. He married Josephine Frazier in 1867 and was active in Republican politics. He represented U.S. Speaker of the House Joseph G. Cannon. In 1904, he was appointed by Theodore Roosevelt to the Northern District of the United States Court for the Indian Territory. After statehood, he opened a law practice in Muskogee, Oklahoma Muskogee () i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles W
The F/V ''Charles W'', also known as Annie J Larsen, is a historic fishing schooner anchored in Petersburg, Alaska. At the time of its retirement in 2000, it was the oldest fishing vessel in the fishing fleet of Southeast Alaska, and the only known wooden fishing vessel in the entire state still in active service. Launched in 1907, she was first used in the halibut fisheries of Puget Sound and the Bering Sea as the ''Annie J Larsen''. In 1925 she was purchased by the Alaska Glacier Seafood Company, refitted for shrimp trawling, and renamed ''Charles W'' in honor of owner Karl Sifferman's father. The company was one of the pioneers of the local shrimp fishery, a business it began to phase out due to increasing competition in the 1970s. The ''Charles W'' was the last of the company's fleet of ships, which numbered twelve at its height. The boat was acquired in 2002 by the nonprofit Friends of the ''Charles W''. The boat was listed on the National Register of Historic Place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Robert Thomas
John Robert Thomas, Sr. (October 11, 1846 – January 19, 1914), also known as J. R. Thomas,January 20, 1914Seven are Slain in Prison Battle.''The New York Times''. Retrieved March 9, 2022. was a U.S. representative from Illinois. He was later appointed a U.S. district judge in the Indian Territory, which then encompassed most of the eastern part of present-day Oklahoma, serving from 1898 to 1901. After statehood, he served on the Oklahoma State Code Commission which was tasked with reviewing and editing the new state laws that had been hastily put together during the rush to statehood. After returning to his private law practice, he went to the Oklahoma state prison at McAlester to interview an inmate on January 19, 1914, when he was killed by three other inmates who shot him to death while escaping prison. Judge Thomas was also the father of Carolyn T. Foreman, who married banker Grant Foreman in 1905. After their marriage and the judge's death, Carolyn and Grant become noted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hosea Townsend
Hosea Townsend (June 16, 1840 – March 4, 1909) was an attorney and a U.S. Representative from Colorado. Appointed by Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, he was a United States judge for the southern district of the Indian Territory from 1897 to 1907. Early life and education Born on a farm in Greenwich, Ohio, his parents were Hiram and Eliza Townsend. His father came to New London, Ohio from Massachusetts in 1816. Townsend attended the common schools and Western Reserve College, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1860. Civil War He was a student at the Western Reserve College at the outbreak of the American Civil War. He enlisted in the Second Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, in 1861. He was promoted to lieutenant. He was stationed at Fort Gibson in Indian Territory during part of the war. He contracted a case of typhoid fever and resigned in 1863 due to a disability. Career He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1864 or 1865. He began practicing law in Memphi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph A
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries. In Portuguese and Spanish, the name is "José". In Arabic, including in the Quran, the name is spelled '' Yūsuf''. In Persian, the name is "Yousef". The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and ''Joseph'' was one of the two names, along with ''Robert'', to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common male name in the 20th century. In the first century CE, Joseph was the second most popular male name for Palestine Jews. In the Book of Genesis Joseph is Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first son, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William McKendree Springer
William McKendree Springer (May 30, 1836 – December 4, 1903) was a United States Representative from Illinois. He was born near New Lebanon, Sullivan County, Indiana, May 30, 1836; moved to Jacksonville, Illinois, with his parents in 1848; attended the public schools in New Lebanon and Jacksonville and the Illinois College at Jacksonville where he was a member of Phi Alpha Literary Society; graduated from Indiana University in 1858; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1859 and practiced in Lincoln, Illinois and Springfield, Illinois; was secretary of the State constitutional convention in 1862 at the young age of 26 and briefly served as assistant secretary of the state's senate;Clark, Blue. ''Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock: Treaty Rights and Indian Law at the End of the Nineteenth Century''. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. traveled in Europe 1868-1871; was member of the Illinois House of Representatives in 1871 and 1872; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constantine B
Constantine most often refers to: * Constantine the Great, Roman emperor from 306 to 337, also known as Constantine I *Constantine, Algeria, a city in Algeria Constantine may also refer to: People * Constantine (name), a masculine given name and surname Roman/Byzantine emperors * Constantine II (emperor) * Constantine III (Western Roman emperor) * Constantine III (Byzantine emperor) * Constantine IV * Constantine V * Constantine VI * Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus * Constantine VIII * Constantine IX Monomachos * Constantine X Doukas * Constantine XI Palaiologos Emperors not enumerated *Tiberius II, reigned officially as "Constantine" * Constans II, reigned officially as "Constantine" *Constantine (son of Leo V) *Constantine (son of Theophilos) *Constantine (son of Basil I) *Constantine Doukas (co-emperor) * Constantine Lekapenos *Constantine Laskaris (?) Other rulers * Constantine I, Prince of Armenia * Constantine II, Prince of Armenia * Constantine I, King of Arme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
