James E. McCaffrey

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James E. McCaffrey (* before 1864 , † after 1883 ) was an American lawyer , politician and newspaper man. His name was also spelled McCaffry or McCaffery .

Career

Not much is known about James E. McCaffrey. He was originally from California . Eventually he moved to the Arizona Territory , where he was in Tucson ( Pima County settled). It is not known where he Jura studied and when he received his license to practice law. Its first legal mention occurs in connection with the first criminal case under American sovereignty. It was a murder case in which a woman named Dolores Moore was involved. McCaffrey acted as the first court-appointed attorney in the Arizona Territory to take on her defense. The trial began on December 17, 1864. McCaffrey was also politically active. He served as chief clerk in 1865, 1868, and 1871 , and as clerk in the Arizona Territory House of Representatives in 1866 . In addition to his legal and political ambitions during this time, he also wrote for the San Diego Union. In this context he wrote the following article on March 31, 1869 concerning an attack on the Danish settler Eli Johnson by local Indians:

“Johnson was jumped by Indians about two miles this side of Pacheco [Picacho Peak], at one o'clock yesterday evening. There were from 50 to 60 red skins and he got among them before they fired. They were in a kind of horse-shoe. Johnson became immediately satisfied that he could not get through, so he turned to the left and drove back. They fired upon him and he received a bullet in the right shoulder, and one in the fourth finger of the left hand; he was also struck in the mouth with a rock. They clustered around him pretty thickly; and as they could see that one of the mules had been lamed, they kept on after him and followed him eight miles, where he met some teams; Johnson, finding that he was becoming too weak and stiff to drive further, procured a Mexican to drive the team to the Point of Mountains Station. When he reached there he found no one at the place; and he couldn't get in to change the team, he drove the same team to this place. Johnson says the Indians fired about 150 shots from guns and pistols and the arrows made it quite shady for him. "

McCaffrey was elected Attorney General of the Arizona Territory in January 1871 . He was re-elected several times in the period that followed. He held the post from 1871 to 1883. During this time he was visited in April 1872 by Major General Oliver Otis Howard , Special Commander of Indian Affairs under US President Ulysses S. Grant . McCaffrey was supposed to help him locate and bring back missing children who were kidnapped by local Indians. At the same time handed him governor of Arizona Territory Anson Safford a list of missing children. McCaffrey also served as a District Attorney in 1875.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cresswell, Stephen: Mormons and Cowboys, Moonshiners and Klansman: Federal Law Enforcement in the South and West, 1870-1893 , University of Alabama Press, 2002, ISBN 9780817311865 , p. 291, item 21
  2. ^ A b Journals of the sixth Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona , Volume 6, 1871, p. 11
  3. ^ A b Arizona Law Review , Volume 2, College of Law of the University of Arizona, 1960, p. 47
  4. ^ Journals of the second Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona , Volume 2, 1866, p. 17
  5. ^ Journals of the third Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona , Volume 3, 1867, pp. 16, 20 and 22
  6. ^ Journals of the fifth Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona , Volume 5, 1869, p. 17
  7. ^ Journals of the sixth Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona, Volume 6, 1871, pp. 17 and 19f
  8. ^ Avis Evelyn Knudsen Jorgenson: Early Danish Pioneers: Southern Arizona Territorial Days , Lulu.com, 2012, ISBN 9781300058403 , p. 139
  9. ^ Journals of the sixth Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona, Volume 6, 1871, pp. 84 and 228
  10. ^ Acts, Resolutions and Memorials adopted by the seventh Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona , Tucson: Office of the Arizona Citizen, 1873, 13
  11. ^ Opinions of the Attorney General , State of Arizona, Department of Law, 1956
  12. ^ Opinions and Report of the Attorney General , Department of Law, 1971
  13. ^ Smith, Victoria: Captive Arizona, 1851-1900 , University of Nebraska Press, 2009, ISBN 9780803210905 , p. 99
  14. ↑ Journal of the eigth Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona , Volume 8, 1875, p 13
personal data
SURNAME McCaffrey, James E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McCaffry, James E .; McCaffery, James E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer, politician, and newspaper man
DATE OF BIRTH before 1864
DATE OF DEATH after 1883