Hoosier Legal Literaries
From Settlement to Sesquicentennial

Ulysses Samuel Lesh
 9 Aug. 1868 - 5 June 1965

U. S. Lesh was born in Rock Creek Township, Wells County, Indiana. He practiced law in Huntington, Indiana, periodically throughout his life. He was a staunch Republican and spent time and money supporting the local party. From 1917 to 1921, Lesh served as Assistant Attorney General under Ele Stansbury. He was then elected Attorney General and served two terms (1922-1925). In addition to his legal career, Lesh authored three books, A Knight of the Golden Circle (1911), Three Profiteers (1934), and Whence and Whither as a Nation? (1948). A Knight of the Golden Circle is based on a group that recruited Union soldiers during the Civil War to act as spies for the Confederacy.  Whence and Whither as a Nation? is a collection of essays and the play, The Three Guards.

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Bibliography
A Knight of the Golden Circle. D. Badger, 1911. [ISL call number: I 813 L629k]
Three Profiteers. Boston: Stratford, 1934. [ISL call number: I 813 L629t]
Whence and Whither as a Nation? New York: Vantage Press, 1948. [ISL call number: I 818 L622w]

Thomas Riley Marshall
 14 Mar. 1854 - 1 June 1925

Thomas Riley Marshall was born in North Manchester, Indiana. He practiced law in Columbia City, Indiana. In 1908, Marshall was elected Governor of Indiana. He then received the nomination for Vice President and shared the Democratic ticket with Woodrow Wilson. They won the 1912 and 1916 elections. Marshall continued to be a popular public speaker after leaving office and was extremely active in the Masons throughout his life.  His autobiography, Recollections of Thomas R. Marshall: A Hoosier Salad, was published posthumously.

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Bibliography
Recollections of Thomas R. Marshall, Vice President and Hoosier Philosopher: A Hoosier Salad. Indianapolis: Bobbs, 1925. [ISL call number: I 923 M369r]

Robert Wesley McBride
 25 Jan. 1842 - 15 May 1926

Robert Wesley McBride was born in Richland County, Ohio. Though he spent about twenty years in Iowa, he returned to Ohio when the Civil War broke out. McBride enlisted in the 7th Ohio Independent Squadron of Cavalry, more commonly known as the Union Light Guard. This squadron became bodyguard for President Abraham Lincoln, serving as mounted escort of the President until his assassination. In 1866, he moved to Indiana and settled in Waterloo, DeKalb County. He served as judge of the 35th judicial circuit and, in 1890, was appointed to the Indiana Supreme Court. Months before his death, he wrote Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, in which he told of his almost daily glimpses of President Lincoln during the last sixteen months of the Civil War.

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Bibliography
Lincoln's Body Guard, the Union Light Guard of Ohio; with Some Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln. Indianapolis, 1908. [ISL Manuscript Section, L288]
Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1926. [ISL call number: I 923 L736m]

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Indiana Lawyers & Judges Photograph Exhibit
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Image Sources:
 Indiana Picture Collection, Manuscript Section, Indiana State Library
Indiana Division, Indiana State Library
Text Sources:
 Banta, Ray E., comp.  Indiana Authors and their Books, 1816-1916.  Crawfordsville, IN: Wabash College, 1949.
 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.  United States Congress.  2 Feb. 2006.
 Indiana Governor Thomas Riley Marshall. Indiana Historical Bureau. 20 Dec. 2005.
Post, Margaret Moore. First Ladies of Indiana and the Governors, 1816-1984. Indianapolis: Pierson Publishing Company, 1984.
Taylor, Charles W. Biographical Sketches and Review of the Bench and Bar of Indiana. Indianapolis: Bench and Bar Publishing Co., 1895.