Hoosier Legal Literaries
From Settlement to Sesquicentennial

Daniel Wolsey Voorhees
 26 Sept. 1827 - 10 Apr. 1897

Daniel W. Voorhees was born in Liberty Township, Butler County, Ohio. His family moved to Indiana while he was still a child. He practiced law in Covington and Terre Haute, Indiana. Voorhees spent many years in the U.S. Congress as both a Representative (1861-1866, 1869-1873) and a Senator (1877-1897). He died shortly after leaving office.

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Bibliography
Forty Years of Oratory: Lectures, Addresses, and Speeches; Compiled and Edited by His Three Sons and His Daughter, Harriet Cecillia Voorhees; with a Brief Sketch of His Life by Judge Thomas B. Long. Indianapolis, 1898. [ISL call number: I 308 V951f (2 volumes)]
Speeches of Daniel W. Voorhees, of Indiana, Embracing his Most Prominent Forensic, Political, Occasional and Literary Addresses. Cincinnati: R. Clarke & Co., 1875. [ISL call number: I 308 V951]

James Eli Watson
2 Nov. 1864 - 29 July 1948

James Eli Watson was born in Winchester, Randolph County, Indiana. After being admitted to the bar in 1886, he practiced law in Winchester until 1893 when he moved to Rushville. Watson enjoyed a lengthy career in the U.S. Congress as both a Representative and a Senator.  For a time, he was majority leader of the Senate.

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Bibliography
As I Knew Them: Memoirs of James E. Watson, Former United States Senator from Indiana. New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1936. [ISL call number: I 923 W339a]

Joseph Albert Wright
17 Apr. 1810 - 11 May 1867

Joseph Albert Wright was born in Washington, Pennsylvania. His family moved to Bloomington, Indiana, when he was still a young boy. He held a number of public offices before being elected Governor of Indiana in 1848. Accomplishments during his two terms as Governor include the adoption of a new state constitution and the formation of State Boards of Education and Agriculture.  Wright was then appointed the U.S. Minister to Prussia.

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Select Bibliography
Addresses delivered by Governor Wright and President Berry, at Indiana Asbury University, July 16, 1850. Indianapolis, 1850. [ISL call number: Ip 815 W951 no. 5]
Address of His Excellency, Joseph A. Wright, Governor of the State of Indiana, pronounced at the New York Agricultural State Fair, at Elmira, October 5, 1855. Indianapolis: Elder & Harkness, 1855. [ISL call number: Ip 815 W951 no. 7]
"Political Portraits with Pen and Pencil. General T. A. Howard of Indiana." New York, 1847. [ISL call number: Ip 923 H852 no. 3]

Smith - Thornton Hoosier Legal Literaries
 

Indiana Lawyers & Judges Photograph Exhibit
All images are provided for the personal use of patrons and researchers and may not be incorporated into publications, websites, or exhibits without written permission of the Indiana State Library or other appropriate copyright holder.
 Image Sources:
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Text Sources:
 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. United States Congress. 19 Jan. 2005.
Shepherd, Rebecca A., Charles W. Calhoun, Elizabeth Shanahan-Shoemaker, and Alan F. January, comp.  A Biographical Directory of the Indiana General Assembly, Volume 1, 1816-1899.  Indianapolis: The Select Committee on the Centennial History of the Indiana General Assembly, 1980.
Thompson, Donald E., comp.  Indiana Authors and their Books, 1917-1966.  Crawfordsville, IN: Wabash College, 1974.