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 The Court of Appeals of Kentucky. chosen to fill vacancies and therefore not having the same term of service. The language of the present constitution thus differs from the last which provided that the Judge " having the shortest time to serve" shall be Chief Justice.

discrimination. This reputation has increased year by year until now his opinions place him in the front rank of the able and efficient Judges who have presided over the Court. When Chief Justice Hazelrigg was first elected, the Court of Appeals consisted of four Judges. He is the last of the Judges JAMES H. HAZELRIGG. chosen under the old regime before the num ber of Judges was increased to seven and Chief Justice Hazelrigg was born in Mont gomery County, Kentucky, of a long line of the Court divided into sections. His record

distinguished ances has been an honor try, on December 6, able one and he has 1848. Until he was written many opin fifteen years old he ions showing great lived on his maternal research and learn grandfather's farm, ing. and attended the THOMAS H. PAYNTER. country schools during the winter Judge Thomas H. months. When six Paynter was born in • Lewis County, Ken teen years of age, he joined the Con tucky, on Decem federate Army and ber 9, 1851. He served with his regi was educated at ment to the end of Center College, in the war. In 1867 Danville, Ky. At he entered the Ken the conclusion of his tucky University at collegiate course, he Lexington, and in took up the study of 1871 he graduated law and in 1873 ne from that institu was admitted to tion. practice. He locat He studied law ed in Greenup, Ky., THOMAS H. PAYNTER. under private in and became one of struction, and came of that section of the State. the leading In 1889 lawyers he to the bar in 1873. He held several posi tions of trust and responsibility in his county, was elected to Congress from his district and in 1892 he was nominated by the Demo and thereafter he was twice reelected, serv crats for Judge of the Court of Appeals. ing in all six years. In the summer of 1894 After a vigorous campaign, he was by force he became a candidate for Judge of the of his recognized ability and personal pop Court of Appeals, defeating for the Demo ularity elected over his opponent, Chief Jus cratic nomination Hon. William Goebel, tice William H. Holt. whose name is now well known through He took his seat on the bench in January, out the country in connection with the dis 1893, and though the youngest member of puted governorship of Kentucky. He was the Court, he soon gained a reputation for elected in November of that year, and thus judicial capacity and for logical powers of became one of the first Judges of the re