Viewing Douglas A. Hedin: Documents regarding the terms of the justices of the Supreme Court of Minnesota Territory, 1849-1858: PART TWO-B. (Justice Meeker) (2009-2010).

Douglas A. Hedin: Documents regarding the terms of the justices of the Supreme Court of Minnesota Territory, 1849-1858: PART TWO-B. (Justice Meeker) (2009-2010).

The process of becoming a justice on the territorial supreme court had four steps: 1) be nominated by the President or receive a recess appointment by him; 2) if nominated, be confirmed by the U. S. Senate; 3) receive a commission from the President, and accept it; and 4) take the oath of office in Minnesota Territory.

PART TWO-B covers Associate Justice Bradley B. Meeker, who was commissioned by President Taylor on March 19, 1849, and removed by President Pierce on April 5, 1853.

Justice Meeker's three commissions are reproduced here, as is the clerk's docket entry on August 15, 1854, of the territorial supreme court's denial of Meeker's "request" to be restored to his former post on the court. Meeker's published his legal arguments in a lengthy open letter to the residents of the territory, in the "St. Anthony Express," on May 6, 1854; it is posted in its entirety in PART THREE.

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