Viewing DeWitt Clinton Cooley: "The High Old Court of Impeachment." (1878)

DeWitt Clinton Cooley: "The High Old Court of Impeachment." (1878)

After Judge Sherman Page's impeachment trial concluded with his acquittal in June, 1878, DeWitt Clinton Cooley, a prominent St. Paul lawyer, published a three-act play about the proceedings. It was a wicked farce. Cooley lampooned the state senate, which had styled itself "The High Court of Impeachment," Page's accusers and the St. Paul Pioneer Press, among others.

The play was published as a pamphlet. It had several pages of advertising which suggests that it was offered for sale. It does not appear to have ever been produced and Cooley probably never intended it to be.

Cooley was St. Paul's first city attorney, and Ramsey County's second county attorney.

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