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Thomas O. C. Harrison (May 22, 1849 – May 29, 1919)[1] was a justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court from 1894 to 1900, serving as chief justice from 1898 to 1900.
HARRISON, justice of the supreme court of Nebraska, was born in New Burlington, Ohio. He became a resident of Nebraska in 1873, locating at Grand Island. He was honored with the office of county judge of Hall county in 1876 by appointment, and was afterwards twice elected to the same office by the people. He was a member of the state senate in the legislature of 1883, representing Hall and Hamilton counties. He was appointed by Governor Thayer judge of the district court for the eleventh district in 1887. At the expiration of the appointive term he was elected, and was re-elected in 1891, resigning in 1894 to assume the duties of judge of the supreme court, to which high office he had been elected in the fall of 1893. Judge Harrison is a lawyer of wide experience and high repute. He is a citizen of the strictest integrity and enjoys the confidence of both bench and bar.[2]
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T O C Harrisson former member of the state supreme court died at his home here today of uraemic poisoning He had been ill only a few days Judge Harrisson of British ancestry came to this city in 1372 from Ohio where he had studied law He was appointed deputy county treasurer in 1876 elected county judge in 1877 state senator in 1882 district judge in 1887 and supreme judge early in the nineties He has since been practicing law in home city and was so engaged when illness overtook him He leaves his wife one daughter and two grandsons twins the latter now being students in the High school ' Judge Harrison passed his seventieth birthday only a few days ago.[1]
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edit- ^ a b "T. O. C. Harrison Dies; Once Supreme Justice", Omaha Evening World-Herald (May 29, 1919), p. 2.
- ^ http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/topic/resources/OLLibrary/Legislature/1897/lybp215.htm
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