Alfred Bosworth

Alfred Bosworth (1812–June 10, 1862) was a Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from 1854 to 1862.

Born at Warren, Rhode Island in 1812,[1] Bosworth graduated from Brown University in 1835,[1][2] and studied law with Judge Levi Haile.[1] Bosworth served in the Rhode Island House of Representatives from 1839 to 1854, including three terms as Speaker.[2] Bosworth was a member of the Whig Party.[3] Upon the death of Judge Haile in 1854, Bosworth was elected to succeed him as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, which office he continued to hold until his death in 1862.[1][2] He also served as a Trustee of Brown University.[2] Bosworth was of counsel for Rhode Island in suits growing out of the boundary question between Rhode Island and Massachusetts.[1] He died at his home in Warren, Rhode Island.[2]

References
  1. Stephen O. Edwards, "The Supreme Court of Rhode Island", in Horace Williams Fuller, et al., eds., The Green Bag, Vol. 2. (1890), p. 536.
  2. "Hon. Alfred Bosworth", The New York Times (June 15, 1862), p. 8.
  3. "LATEST INTELLIGENCE; By Telegraph to the New-York Daily Times. Rhode Island--Whig State Convention--Nomination of Presidential Electors". New York Times. June 25, 1852. Retrieved May 13, 2020.


Political offices
Preceded by
Levi Haile		 Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court
1854–1862		 Succeeded by
J. Russell Bullock


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