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COLE, Orsamus, jurist, born in Cazenovia, Madison County, New York, 23 August, 1819. He was graduated at Union in 1843. studied law, and removed to Potosi, Grant County, Wisconsin, where he practiced his profession. He was appointed United States judge for Wisconsin territory, was a prominent member of the constitutional convention of 1847, and elected to congress as a Whig in 1848, serving one term. He vigorously opposed the compromise measures of 1850, was the Whig and Free-soil candidate for at-torney-general of Wisconsin in 1853, and in 1855 elected by the Republicans to the supreme bench of the state. He was re-elected in 1861, 1867, and 1873, and in 1879 for a term of ten years.
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