Justice Joseph S. Dailey
(Fourty-fourth Justice)

Justice Dailey was born May 31, 1844, in Wells County, Indiana,¹⁰⁷ and died October 9, 1905, in Bluffton, Indiana.

He received his early education in the public schools of Bluffton, Indiana, and graduated from the Indiana University Law School in 1866.¹⁰⁸ After graduation he began a legal practice in Bluffton, Indiana, and, in the fall of that year, he was elected district attorney of the common pleas court.¹⁰⁹ In 1868, he won the election for prosecuting attorney of the 10th Indiana Judicial Circuit and served there until 1876.¹¹⁰ He served as a member of the Indiana State Legislature in 1879.¹¹¹ In 1888, Dailey was elected judge of the 28th Indiana Judicial Circuit, a position which he held until 1893, when he was appointed to the Indiana Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Justice Olds.¹¹² His term on the Indiana Supreme Court bench was from July 25, 1893 to January 7, 1895.¹¹³

Source: Browning, Minde C., Richard Humphrey, and Bruce Kleinschmidt. "Biographical Sketches of Indiana Supreme Court Justices." Indiana Law Review: Vol. 30, No. 1, 1997. View this source in PDF format.