Ulysses G. Denman

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Ulysses G. Denman

Ulysses Grant Denman (born November 26, 1866 in Willshire , Ohio , † October 30, 1962 in Toledo , Ohio) was an American lawyer and politician ( Republican Party ). He was the Ohio Attorney General from 1908 to 1911 and the United States District Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio from 1911 to 1914 .

Career

Ulysses Grant Denman was born and raised in Van Wert County about a year after the end of the Civil War . He attended public schools in Willshire, the National Normal University in Lebanon (Ohio) and the Northern Indiana Normal School in Valparaiso ( Indiana ). Then in 1889 he was appointed Superintendent of the Public Schools of Willshire - a position he held for three years. He then began studying law at the University of Michigan Law School . In 1894 he graduated from there. He was admitted to the Ohio bar that same year. In 1904 he tried cases in the United States Supreme Court .

On December 26, 1890, he married Francis May Neptune. The couple had a daughter. Denman was a Methodist and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE). He practiced as a lawyer in Toledo, Ohio.

Between 1899 and 1901 he was Assistant City Solicitor of Toledo. He then represented Lucas County in the Ohio House of Representatives between 1902 and 1903 . In 1908 he was elected as a Republican Attorney General of Ohio. On November 6, 1908, his predecessor Wade H. Ellis resigned from his office as Attorney General. The governor of Ohio, Andrew L. Harris then to fill the vacancy that would last until the beginning of his two-year term in January 1909 to fill, appointed Denman advance the new Attorney General. Denman was appointed United States District Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio in 1911 to succeed William Louis Day - a position he held until his resignation in 1914. He died in 1962 in a retirement home in Toledo.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Edgar Scobey and Burgess L. McElroy: The Biographical Annals of Ohio, 1902-1903 , General Assembly, 1892, p. 411
  2. ^ A b c William B. Neff: Bench and Bar of Northern Ohio , Historical Publishing Company, 1921, p. 366
  3. ^ Ohio General Assembly: Manual of Legislative Practice in the General Assembly of Ohio , Westbote Company, 1917, p. 301
  4. ^ Charles Burleigh Galbreath : History of Ohio, Volume 4, The American Historical Society, 1925, p. 244
  5. ^ Ohio Bar: Publication of the Ohio State Bar Association , Volume 35, Part 4, The Association, 1962
personal data
SURNAME Denman, Ulysses G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Denman, Ulysses Grant (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Willshire , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1962
Place of death Toledo , Ohio