Adam Madison Beeler (October 11, 1879 – March 25, 1947) was a justice of the

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from 1930 until 1932. Beeler served as a

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Judge between April 6, 1928 and September 30, 1930, when he was appointed to the Supreme Court by Governor Roland H. Hartley. Born in Bluffton,

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, to Peter and Elizabeth Beeler, he attended the

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, where he met his future wife, Florence Leona Scott (November 30, 1887 – January 12, 1960), and was graduated in 1903. He then attended

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. He was married to Florence Scott on April 8, 1909, in

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, and they had a son and two daughters: Madison Scott Beeler, Elizabeth Beller, and Virginia Jean Beeler. Beeler had served in the

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from 1922 until 1928. In 1932, Beeler resigned his court seat to run for

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, and after losing the primary he was considered in November 1932 as a replacement to

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, following his death.

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