. History of the bench and bar of Minnesota. etermination to excel in thatprofession. He was admitted to the 1)ar at tludson, Wisconsin, in1878, and decided to locate in Iolk county of that state. There hequickly attained recognition, was elected district attorney two terms,and in the fall of 1884 he was sent to the .state legislature as repre-sentative from Polk county, and made the nominating speech of C. ,S])ooner, when lirst elected to the Inited States senate. Atthis time Mr. Mye realized that the lield for his services in a countrydistrict were restricted, notwithstanding the su
. History of the bench and bar of Minnesota. etermination to excel in thatprofession. He was admitted to the 1)ar at tludson, Wisconsin, in1878, and decided to locate in Iolk county of that state. There hequickly attained recognition, was elected district attorney two terms,and in the fall of 1884 he was sent to the .state legislature as repre-sentative from Polk county, and made the nominating speech of C. ,S])ooner, when lirst elected to the Inited States senate. Atthis time Mr. Mye realized that the lield for his services in a countrydistrict were restricted, notwithstanding the success he iiad , in 1886, he tuoved to Minneapolis, where he has sinceresided, and where his abilities as a lawyer and an orator were cpiicklyappreciated. Mr. N\e immediateh- became recognized as a jjoliticalspeaker of con\incing oratory and rendered his ])olitical party (re])ub-lican) service. Upon the election of Rol)ert Jamison to the position ofcounty attorney for Hennepin county. Mr. Nye was ajjpointed his as- ?0^ ^^. Z>a^cx/J^^ ^,£> ^ /C^ yjyyc^ c»-v--^y^. Jy^ THE \^,, - YORK \\ ,PUBLIC LIBRARY , /1908 HISTORY OF THE BENCH AND BAR OF MINNESOTA. 199 sistant: and in 1892 Mr. Nye was cliosen count\ attorne). and in 1894was re-elected to tlie same office. During his incunibencv of thecounty attorneyship sex-eral criminal cases of such importance thatthey became of world-wide notoriety were prosecuted by him to con-viction, and at once placed Mr. Nye in the front rank of those whomake a study of criminal law. His success in the celebrated Haywardmurder case and the unra\eliny of the intricate entanglements whichcharacterized the details of the case against the Harris murderers, gavehim immediate reputation throughout the northwest, and he was re-tained by North Dakota in the trial of Myron Kent for wife murder,where his standing was still further enhanced bv success. Mr. Nyessuccess in civil cases has also Ijeen marked. He has repeatedh beenurg
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