Viewing Judicial Elections Category (12) found:Douglas A. Hedin, "Lafayette Emmett v. James Gilfillan: The Contest for the Election of Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, 1875."This is the story of the election of the Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court in 1875. Incumbent James Gilfillan received the "endorsement" of the Republican Party while Lafayette Emmett, a former chief justice who had served from 1858 to 1865, was nominated by the Democratic and the Anti-M... Douglas A. Hedin, "Chief Justice Gilfillan is Re-elected" (1882).In 1882 both major political parties endorsed incumbent James Gilfillan for re-election to the office of Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. This had not happened before. An incumbent would not run unopposed until Charles M. Start ran in 1900 and 1906. This story of the 1882 election of ... Primary Election Advertisement (1924).This advertisement for the reelections of Chief Justice Samuel B. Wilson and Associate Justices Andrew Holt and Royal A. Stone appeared in the Frazee Weekly Press on Thursday, June 12, 1924. ... "Results of Elections of Justices to the Minnesota Supreme Court, 1857-2022"The results of all elections of justices to the Minnesota Supreme Court from the first election on October 13, 1857 to the latest on November 8, 2022 are posted here. ... Douglas A. Hedin: Now on the Ballot for Candidate for the Minnesota Supreme Court: "Calvin L. Brown (Republican-Democrat)"---The Story of In re Day (1904).In the summer of 1904, Associate Justice Calvin Luther Brown was about the last person Republican leaders would expect to encourage litigation by Democrats challenging an election law that was the bedrock of their dominance of state government. But that is exactly what happened in September 1904 whe... Douglas A. Hedin, "Chief Justice Gilfillan is Defeated: A Study of the 1894 Republican State Convention and Election."This is a study of the 1894 Republican State Convention and subsequent election. The Party endorsed Judge Charles M. Start, who defeated Chief Justice Gilfillan by a wide margin. ... Douglas A. Hedin, "Judicial District Conventions in Minnesota: An Introduction."Judicial district conventions were used by political parties to select candidates for district courts from 1858 to 1910, when the last partisan judicial election was held. This paper describes how the judicial district convention was organized and functioned, emphasizing the influence of lawyers an... Douglas A. Hedin: The Puzzle of the Elections of 1892, 1898, 1904 and 1910. (2010).The 1892 election was the first of four judicial elections where the start of the terms of the certain associate justices was delayed one year. Three associate justices, who were elected in November 1892, did not take office until January 1894; three justices elected in November 1898, did not take o... Douglas A. Hedin, "George B. Young v. Francis R. E. Cornell: The Contest for the Republican Nomination for Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, 1874."The appointment of a new justice to the Minnesota Supreme Court in the twenty-first century may result in a few newspaper articles, one or two on the retiring jurist and one or two on the new one. This was not the reaction of state newspapers to appointments to the Court in April 1874.
Douglas A. Hedin: "James Gilfillan vs. Christopher G. Ripley: The Contest for the Republican Nomination for Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, 1869."On July 14, 1869, Governor William R. Marshall appointed James Gilfillan Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court replacing Thomas Wilson who had resigned to run for United States Senator. Gilfillan was a respected member of a prominent St. Paul law firm and a Civil war veteran. He was, of cou... Report of the Committee on Judicial Elections to the Minnesota State Bar Association. (1904).In 1903, believing that the increasingly partisan election of the state judiciary needed reform, the President of the Minnesota State Bar Association appointed a special committee to examine the process and make recommendations. The five member committee submitted its report, with two recommendatio... Charles E. Flandrau: "The Judge." (1895)At the height of the populist revolt in the 1890s, when the judiciary was under siege, Charles E. Flandrau published this brief essay on how judges should be selected. It appeared in the May, 1895, issue of "The Minnesota Law Journal." ... |