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Show 1880 TO 1912 497 dent of Alburquerque, N. M., who had been a prominent figure in the early history of the state of Kansas and a United States senator from that state, was commissioned as govern or, George W. Julian, surveyor general, George W. Lane, secretary, Romulo Martinez, marshal, and William A. Vincent,*1, W. H. Brinker,“"? W. F. Hen. derson,*1? justices of the Supreme court. Very shortly after his appointment as chief Justice, Vincent was removed from office by the president, charged with too much intimacy with Stephen W. Dorsey, &@ prominent citizen of the territory, whom the government had selected for prosecution charged with land frauds, and which prosecution would have been heard before Judge Vincent. The vacancy caused by the removal of Vincent was filled by the appointment of K. V. Long,‘#* of Indiana. This court was in all probability the expiring in March, 1871. On account of the vote cast by Johnson impeachment case, he was politically him in the senate in and socially ostracized in the state of Kansas. His vote saved President Johnson from impeachment. Senator Ross was always satisfied that he had voted in a proper manner and afterward said, that ‘‘Mr. Lincoln, had he lived, would have purSued the Andrew much the same policy of reconstruction as indicate d by the established fact that he had determined to adopt precisel y the initial measures thereto which Mr. Johnson did inaugurate and carry out.’’ History shows that Gover- nor Ross was justified in the vote he cast. : After the expiration of his term of office as governor of New Mexico he went to work at his trade, being employed in the office of the New Mexican at Santa Fé. From Santa Fé he went to Deming, where he edited the H eadlight until 1893. When Mr. Cleveland was elected to the presidency the second time Governor Ross was urged for re-appointment , but it was believed that the office required a younger man and another was appoint ed. Governor Ross died at Alburquerque, May 9, 1907. “11 W. A. Vincent is a native of the state of Illinois. He left New Mexico and has since practiced his profession in Chicago. him were without foundation; the president acknowlThe charges made against edged that he had acted too hastily and tendered him the appointment of chief justice of one of the northern territories, but it was declined. He was the first president of the New exico Bar Association. He is now a resident of Chicago, Illinois. PAW. BH. Brinker was a native of the state of Missouri. He was prominent In his profession in that State before his appointment to the bench in New exico, In 1889, he removed to the territory of Washington and was named United States attorney for Washington by President Clevela nd during the “econd administration of the latter. “a, \/; E: Henderson was a native of the state of Arkansas. =e Confederate army. Ing — general. earg later, He had been in He held many offices in his native state, the principal He returned to Arkansas in 1889, where he died some a *\4 Elisha Van Buren Long was born in Wayne county, Indiana, March 7, He received his educati 36. ot Fort he was he wag on in the publie schools of his Wayne college. He studied law and was admitted to appointed circuit judge of the fourth judicial district elected to the position and held the office for thirteen native county and the bar. In 1872, of Indiana; later years. He a “gate to the national democratic conventions of 1860, 1876, and 1884. In |
