Henry N. Blake

Henry N. Blake (June 5, 1838 – November 1935) was a lawyer and newspaper editor who served as associate justice and chief justice of the Montana Territorial Supreme Court and as the first Chief Justice of the Montana Supreme Court after statehood.

Blake was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts.[1] He graduated from Harvard College in 1858 with an LL.B., and practiced law in Boston until April, 1861. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War before mustering out in 1864 after being wounded a second time.[1] After the war, he wrote the book Three Years in the Army about his military service and moved to Montana[2] in 1866.[3]

He was appointed an Associate Justice of the Montana Territorial Supreme Court by President Ulysses S. Grant and served from 1875 until 1885. He was appointed Chief Justice of the Territorial Supreme Court in 1889 by president Benjamin Harrison. He also served the first Chief Justice of the Montana Supreme Court from 1889 until 1893.[1]

In 1916 he was announced as Harvard's commencement speaker.[2]

See also

References
  1. "Honorable Henry N. Blake". mtmemory.org.
  2. "JUDGE H. N. BLAKE '58 WILL BE MEMORIAL DAY SPEAKER | News | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com.
  3. Paladin, Vivian A. (1964). "Memoirs of a Many-Sided Man: The Personal Record of a Civil War Veteran, Montana Territorial Editor, Attorney, Jurist". Montana: The Magazine of Western History. 14 (4): 31–56. JSTOR 4516887.


Political offices
Preceded by
Newly established court		 Justice of the Montana Supreme Court
1875–1885
1889–1893		 Succeeded by
William Y. Pemberton


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