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JOB HILLIARD LIPPINCOTT
Originally published in 1900 |
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JOB HILLIARD LIPPINCOTT was born at Vincenttown, Burlington
County, N. J., November 12, 1842. He was the son of a prosperous farmer.
He was graduated from Mount Holly Seminary in 1861, and remained
there as a teacher until 1863, when he entered the Dane Law School of
Harvard University, from which he was graduated in 1865. He was ad-
mitted to the New Jersey bar in 1867, and opened an office opposite the
Court House in what was then Hudson City, now a part of Jersey City.
He was President of the Board of Education from 1868 to 1871, when
Jersey City, Hudson City, and the Town of Bergen were consolidated. In
1874 he was appointed counsel of the Board of Freeholders, which position
he held until 1886, when President Cleveland appointed him United States
Attorney for the District of New Jersey. A year later he resigned, Governor
Green having appointed him Judge of the Hudson County courts to
succeed Alexander T. McGill, who became Chancellor. In 1888 he was re-appointed for a full term of five years. In January, 1893, just before his
term expired, he resigned, and Governor Werts appointed him an Assodate Justice of the Supreme Court, which position the latter had vacated
to become Governor. He was re-appointed by Governor Voorhees in
March, 1900. Justice Lippincott's reputation was based mainly on his imprisonment of the Jersey City ballot-box stuffers in 1892. Following the election for Governor in 1889, an investigation was started in 1890 which resulted in the finding of at least 5,000 fraudulent ballots. Although the proof was of the most convincing kind, it was only by extraordinary energy that indictments were secured against sixty-seven election officers. Justice Lippincott died July 5, 1900, in Jersey City.
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