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Charles Cleaves Cole

Associate Justice, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Supreme Court of the District of Columbia) · 1893

Charles Cleaves Cole , Associate Justice, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Supreme Court of the District of Columbia). Charles Cleaves Cole (May 22, 1841 – March 17, 1905) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

Education

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  • Harvard Law SchoolLL.B., 1867

Career

U.S. Army private, Seventeenth Maine Infantry, 1862-1865; Private practice, Portland, Maine, 1866-1867; Private practice, West Union, West Virginia, 1868-1870; Prosecutor, Doddridge County, West Virginia, 1869-1870; Private practice, Parkersburg, West Virginia, 1870-1874, 1876-1878; City solicitor, Parkersburg, West Virginia, 1874-1876; Private practice, Washington, D.C., 1878-1891, 1901-1905; U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, 1891-1893

Biography

Charles Cleaves Cole (May 22, 1841 – March 17, 1905) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

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