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DEALY

man of the committee on judiciary. In 1838 he was api)oiuted associate judge of the supreme court of tlie state and in 1841 he resigned to resume the practice of law. He was appointed in 1843 by Governor Pennington U.S. senator, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel L. Southard, and at the next session of the state legislature his appointment was con- Hrnied by his election. He was re-elected for a full term in 1845. In the United States senate he acted with the Free-soil Whigs, was a friend and i>ersonal advisor of President Taylor, and advocated the admission of California as a free state and the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. He was one of the founders of the Republican party and in their first national con- vention in 1856 was made their candidate for Vice- President with John C. Fremont for President. He was elected attorney -general of the state in 1857, resigning in 1861 to accei^t from President Lincoln the appointment of United States min- ister to France. He received from the College of New Jersey the degree of LL.D. in 1857. He was a regent of the Smithsonian in.stitution. He was married May 22, 1833, to Margaret Elmendorf, daughter of Ferdinand Van Der Veer of Somerville, N.J., and had seven children: Maj. Ferdinand Van Der Veer Dayton, who served through the civil war as surgeon of the 1st N.J. cavalry; William Lewis; Edward Lewis, 1st and 2d; Robert; Margaret V.; and Anna Lewis Dayton. He died in Paris, France, Dec. 1, 1864. DAYTON, William Lewis, jurist, was born in Trenton, X.J.. April 13, is:j9; son of the Hon. William Lewis and ^largaret Elmendorf (Van Der Veer) Dayton. He was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1858, and studied law with his father for two years. He went with his father to Paris in 1861 as assistant secretary of the U.S. legation and on his return to America in 1865 resumed the study of law with Peter D. Vroom. He was admitted as an attorney in 1866 and as a coun.sellor in 1869; was private sec- retary to Gov. Marcus L Ward, 1866-69: presi- dent of tiie common council of Trenton. 1876-79; and city solicitor, 1879-81, and 1888-89. Presi- dent Arthur appointed him U.S. minister to The Hague, where he served, 1882-85. In 1896 Gov- ernor Griggs appointed him judge of the court of errors and appeals for the term of six years. He was counsel of the Trenton Ijanking company ; a director of the Trenton bank: one of the man- agers of the Trenton savings fund .society; presi- dent of tlie board of directors of the Mercer hospital and i)resident of the V)oard of trustees of the First Presbyterian church, Trenton. He was married in 1894 to Harriet Maria, daughter of Gen. Robert Field Stockton of Trenton, N.J. He died in Trenton, N J., Julv 28, 1897.

DEADRICK, James W., jurist, was born in Jonesboro, Tenn., Nov. 28, 1812 His father was a Revolutionary soldier from Virginia and after the war was president of the Jonesboro branch of tiie Bank of Tennessee. His mother was a sister of tiie Hon. Josepli Anderson, U. S. senator from Tennessee, 1797-1815. James was a .student at East Tennessee college and at Centre college, Ky., leaving in 1832, having tiie same year married at Danville a granddaughter of Gov. Isaac Shelby, and a daughter of the first wiiite female child born in the territory of Kentucky. Being possessed of an ample fortune he settled in Hamblin county, Tenn., but the financial panic of 1837 swept away his fortune and he accepted office as Indian agent in Iowa. He was admitteil to the bar in 1844, served in the state senate in 1851, and in 1860 was an elector on the Bell ami Everett ticket. He was an active secessionist, and his .son.s, James G. and William W., served in the Confederate army. In 1870 he was elected judge of the supreme court of Tennessee and on the death of Chief Justice Nicholson in 1876 he succeeded Iiim as head of the bench. He was reelected in 1878 and was continued as chief justice. At the close of his term in 1886 he retired to his home in Jonesboro, Tenn., where he died, Oct. 8, 1890.

DEADY, Matthew Paul, jurist, was born in Easton, Md., May 12, 1824. He removed to Vir- ginia and thence to Ohio. He was self educated, beginning life as a forge tender and blacksmith and becoming successively farmer, student and teaclier. He gained admission to the Oliio bar in 1847 and .settled in Oregon Territory in 1849. He opened the first school in Lafayette, Ore., and in 1850 began to practise law. He was elected to the ^Oregon house of representatives in 1850 and to the territorial senate in 1851. He com- piled the first local laws published, and in 1852 was president of the council. He was appointed judge of the supreme court in 1853 and organized courts in the five counties of the territory. In 1857 he presided over the state constitutional convention. He was U.S. district judge from Oregon, 1859-93. In 1862 he was appointed a commi.ssioner to prepare a civil code and code of criminal procedure, completing the task in 1864. He also compiled the laws of the state and in 1874 made further codifications. In connection with Dr. George H. Atkinson, he organized the school system of the state and was president of the board of regents of the University of Oregon and also of the Portland library as.so(^iation. He died at Portland, Ore . March 24, 1893

DEALY, Patrick Francis, educator, was born in Galway, Ireland, .April 7, 1827. His parents immigrated to America when lie was a child and located in New York city, where the boy attended