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BENNETT, Alfred S.
BENNETT, Alfred S. (Dubuque, IA, June 10, 1854 – November 28, 1925). In 1865 Bennett and his parents took the Oregon Trail to Oregon and settled in Washington County. By 1870 he moved to The Dalles, Oregon where he taught and learned the law between 1873 and 1880. In 1880, he passed the bar while serving as Wasco County superintendent of schools from 1878 until 1882.
In September 1882, Alfred Bennett was appointed judge of the 8th judicial district which covered eastern Oregon. He remained in that post for two years. He then returned to private practice and married Mary McCauley in 1887.
In 1918 Bennett won election to the Oregon Supreme Court. He replaced Conrad P. Olson who was serving out the remainder of Frank A. Moore’s term after Moore died in office. Alfred Bennett resigned from the court on October 5, 1920. He then resumed private practice in The Dalles.
While in private practice Bennett argued several cases in front of the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1896 Bennett represented Jane Skottowe in Oregon S. L. & U. N. R. Co. v. Skottowe in a personal injury lawsuit. In 1912, he represented Hamilton H. Hendricks against the government on charges of perjury in Hendricks v. United States.
Alfred and his family lived in the Victorian house now known as Bennett–Williams House in The Dalles.
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Source:
State of Oregon Law Library. Online: http://www.oregon.gov/SOLL/Pages/ojd_historyjustice_biographies/a_s_bennett_bio.aspx
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