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Ashur Ware, 1848

Ashur Ware (born February 10, 1782 in Sherborn , Massachusetts , † September 10, 1873 in Portland , Maine ) was an American lawyer and politician , also from 1820 to 1821 the first Secretary of State of Maine and later a federal judge .

Life

Ashur Ware was born in Sherborn Massachusetts to Joseph Ware and Grace Coolidge. He had two brothers and two sisters. Ware graduated from Harvard College in 1804 . From 1810 to 1811 he worked as a tutor at Cambridge and a professor of Greek to 1815. He graduated in 1816 law and was admitted to the lawyer.

He worked as an author for the Boston Yankee in Boston from 1816 to 1817, and for the Eastern Argus in Portland from 1817 to 1820. He also had a law firm in Portland during this time.

In 1820 he was elected to the Society of Bowdoin College , which he remained until 1844. In 1834 he was President of the Portland Athenaeum , a forerunner of the Portland Public Library and was a member of the Maine Historical Society .

From 1820 to 1821 he was the first Secretary of State of Maine. On February 15, 1822, he was nominated by President James Monroe for the vacant seat of Albion Keith Parris in the Maine Supreme Judicial Court . This nomination was confirmed by the Senate on the same day. He held this position until 1866.

In 1839 he married Sarah Morgridge. They had a son.

Ashur Ware died in Portland on September 10, 1873.

literature

  • James Spear Loring, John P. Jewitt and Company: The Hundred Boston Orators From 1770 to 1852 , Cleveland, Ohio, 1853, pages 382 to 383

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William Willis: A History of the Law, the Courts, and the Lawyers of Maine: From Its First Colonization to the Early Part of the Present Century . The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2006, ISBN 978-1-58477-628-4 , pp. 636 ( books.google.de ).
  2. ↑ a b c History of the Federal Judiciary. In: fjc.gov. Retrieved August 16, 2015 .
  3. ^ Judge Ashur Ware, 1846. In: mainememory.net. Retrieved August 16, 2015 .
  4. ^ Court History | District of Maine | United States District Court. In: uscourts.gov. www.med.uscourts.gov, accessed August 16, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Ashur Ware (1783-). In: warefamilies.org. Retrieved August 16, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Goods, Ashur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American judge and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Sherborn , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1873
Place of death Portland , Maine