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Fall Elected: In 1919 he was nominated and elected Governor of Maryland. Four years later he was renominated and re-elected, being the first Governor of Maryland to succeed himself since the Civil War. Thereafter he was thrice re-nominated and twice re-elected, suffering his first and only defeat in the fall elected of 1934. He was frequently mentioned for the Presidency.
Nevertheless, he was elected to the United States Senate in 1866, but the Senate denied him his seat. For the succeeding eight years he practiced law at Tyler and Gilmer. When the Democratic Party returned to power in 1873 he was appointed chief justice of the state supreme court. Elected governor in 1878 and re-elected in 1880, the outstanding achievement of his administration was establishment of the University of Texas, where he was professor of law from 1883 until his retirement in 1893.
Elected justice of the City Court of New York in 1901, he was in 1906 elected a justice of his state's Supreme Court for a 14-year term, but resigned in 1914 when elected associate justice of the Court of Appeals, New York State. He resigned his justiceship in August 1916 and the next month was nominated by the Democratic Party as its candidate for the governorship, but lost the election to Charles S. Whitman, re-elected governor for a second term. In 1930 he was appointed referee of the Appellate Division, 1st Judicial Department, New York, to investigate conditions in the magistrate courts, and the following year Gov. F. D. |
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