Indiana Supreme Court Justice Biographies: Justice James Henry Jordan

Indiana Supreme Court
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Justice James Henry Jordan
(Forty-fifth Justice)

Justice Jordan was born December 21, 1842, in Woodstock, Virginia, and died April 5, 1912, in Martinsville, Indiana.³⁷³

He attended Wabash College, but graduated in 1868 from Indiana University, where he received an LL.B. in 1871.³⁷⁴ During the Civil War, he served with the 45th Indiana Volunteers, 3d Indiana Cavalry and participated in all of the important battles of the Army of the Potomac.³⁷⁵ He fought in seventy-six engagements and was wounded twice.³⁷⁶ He read law with Judge William A. Porter and Thomas C. Slaughter, and was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1868.³⁷⁷ He was the prosecuting attorney of the Common Pleas District, which included Morgan, Johnson, Monroe, Brown, and Shelby counties, and served as the city attorney of Martinsville from 1873 to 1885.³⁷⁸ He was elected to the Indiana Supreme Court in 1894 and served three terms. Justice Jordan died in office.³⁷⁹

373. In Memoriam, 177 INDIANA REPORTS xl, xl-xli (1913) [hereinafter Jordan Memoriam].
374. Id.; MYERS, supra note 60, at 405
375. Jordan Memoriam, supra note 373, at xl-xli.
376. Id.
377. MEN OF PROGRESS, INDIANA, supra note 20, at 281.
378. 2 ENCYCLOPEDIA, supra note 353, at 322-23.
379. MYERS, supra note 60, at 405; MEN OF PROGRESS, INDIANA, supra note 20, at 281; 2 ENCYCLOPEDIA, supra note 353, at 322-23; Jordan Memoriam, supra note 373, at xl-xli.

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.

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