Albert J. Cornish
Albert Judson Cornish (December 10, 1856 – April 18, 1920) was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court from 1917 to 1920.
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Cornish attended Tabor College in Iowa and Cornell University in New York, and graduated from Iowa City Law School in 1879, also later taking a post graduate course at Harvard Law School.[1] He was admitted to the bar in March 1881, and entered the private practice of law in Lincoln, Nebraska.[1] He was elected to the Nebraska House of Representatives in 1891, and re-elected in 1893.[1] In November 1895, Cornish was elected district judge of Lancaster County, Nebraska.[1] He was re-elected from time to time until January 1917, when he succeeded John B. Barnes as a member of the Nebraska Supreme Court,[2] where he served until the date of his death.[1][3]
References
- "In Memoriam: Albert J. Cornish", Reports of cases in the Supreme Court of Nebraska, Volume 104 (1921), p. xxi; xxiv.
- Dale P. Stough, "The Work of the Nebraska Supreme Court", The Creighton Chronicle (1917), p. 200.
- "Death Call Sounded For Judge Cornish", The Nebraska State Journal, April 19, 1920, pg. 1
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Preceded by John B. Barnes |
Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court 1917–1920 |
Succeeded by Leonard A. Flansburg |