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Each time after Judge Bibb resigned the chief justiceship he was elected by the legis lature of his State to the United States sen ate. He resigned his office as senator dur ing his first term but served out his last term. At its expiration in 1835, he was made first chancellor of the Louisville Chancery Court, in many respects the most important court of original jurisdiction in the State. Here again, the selection of Judge Bibb made for that court an exalted standard of fitness for judicial position, as evidenced by the line of able, honest and fearless judges who have since presided there. In 1844 he resigned the chancellorship, to accept the post of secretary of the treasury under President Tyler. When the term of President Tyler expired in 1845, be took up the practice of law in the courts of the Dis trict of Columbia, where he continued to re side until his death in 1859. During a great part of this time, he was engaged with his friend Attorney General John J. Crittenden in the department of justice, holding the position now filled by the first assistant at torney general. During the last years of his life, such was the respect in which he was held by the Su preme Court of the United States, that he was permitted to make his arguments before that tribunal while sitting in his chair. His mind remained clear and active until his death on April 14, 1859, in the eighty-third year of his age. The newspapers of that day report that his funeral was attended by the president and his cabinet, the Supreme Court and both houses of congress. In his private life Judge Bibb was typical. of the 18th century gentleman of culture. He never adopted the modern style of dress but to the last clung to knee breeches, silk stockings and slippers with large silver buck les as the costume befitting a gentleman. The accompanying photograph made from a portrait by Jouett, now in the possession of his granddaughter Miss Patty A. Burnley at

Frankfort, Ky., shows the type of man that he was. Judge Bibb was a representative of the "Old School " not simply in his dress but in his tastes as well. He was an expert fisher man and his gardens were a source of great pride to him. The famous " Bibb Lettuce" was originated by him and he was as punctil ious as Washington himself about all the af fairs of his domestic life. He was twice married and sixteen children were born to him of the two marriages. If space permitted, it would be highly profitable to notice some of the contests in which Judge Bibb engaged both in court and out of it. He took the keenest interest in public affairs and was one of the most active and able advocates of the " new court" in the controversy that shook the State in the decade beginning in 1820. Though he had for his contemporaries the greatest states men of our history and often measured lances at the bar with Clay, Hardin, Wickliffe, Rowan and many others, it is safe to say that none fared better in the contest and none has left a more lasting impress on the jurisprud ence of the State of Kentucky. JOHN BOYLE.

The sixth chief justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals was John Boyle. Collins' History tells us that he " was born of humble parentage October 28, 1774, in Virginia," and at the age of five years he was brought with his father's family to Kentucky. Like Justice Trimble, his opportunities for obtain ing an education were at that time in Ken tucky necessarily very limited, but his opin ions while on the bench show that he had fully possessed himself of those qualities which Chief Justice Bibb declared essential in a judge. Measured by every standard of judicial fitness, he stood preeminent. Nor was his fame alone judicial. In 1802, when less than twenty-eight years of age, he was unanimously elected to the lower house