_Joseph Whipple _____+
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_Joseph Whipple _____|_Sarah Quimby _______
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!SOURCE: National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. 5 (New York: James T. White, 1907), p. 508.
!BIOGRAPHY: "Served three terms in the [Michigan] state legislature, being speaker during the session of 1837. He was secretary of the constitutional convention of 1836, and subsequently a member of that of 1850. About 1840 he was appointed by Gov. Mason an associate justice of the supreme court of Michigan, and in 1848 he became chief justice as successor to Epaphroditus Ransom, who then became governor of the state. He presided over the supreme court until the constitution of 1850 was adopted and the whole judicial system was changed." --National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
!SOURCE: E_mail from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 29 Dec 2004. Cites Michigan Biographies, p. 433, which reads:
Charles W. Whipple, Representative from Wayne County, 1835 to 1837; and Justice of the Supreme Court, 1838-55; and Delegate from Berrien County to the Constitutional Convention of 1850. Son of Major John Whipple {17634}, of the United States army, was born in New York about 1808; was educated at West Point, subsequently studied law, and began practice in Detroit. He was principal secretary of the Constitutional Convention of 1835. He was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court in 1838, and Chief Justice in 1848, and in 1852 was elected Judge of the Circuit in which the county of Berrien was then situated. Judge Whipple died while in office, October, 1855, after a continuous service of seventeen years on the bench. He was secretary of the Sixth Legislative Council in 1835, was County Register in 1836, a Master in Chancery, and School Inspector in Detroit. He was a Democrat in politics.
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