. Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians . S33, In a classamong the members of whichwere the late Henry J. Biildle,Hon. J. I. Clarke Hare, HoraceB. Wallace and others equallywell known. Shortly after hisgraduation, Mr. Paul com-menced the study of the law asa student in the office of JamesS. Smith, one of the leadingpractitioners of those days,where he remained until ad-mitted to the Bar in [837, beingthen in his twenty-first year,and he at once assumed a lead-ing position in active practiceand has now continued in thesame for a period of over fifty-three years. Of late years,however, he has
. Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians . S33, In a classamong the members of whichwere the late Henry J. Biildle,Hon. J. I. Clarke Hare, HoraceB. Wallace and others equallywell known. Shortly after hisgraduation, Mr. Paul com-menced the study of the law asa student in the office of JamesS. Smith, one of the leadingpractitioners of those days,where he remained until ad-mitted to the Bar in [837, beingthen in his twenty-first year,and he at once assumed a lead-ing position in active practiceand has now continued in thesame for a period of over fifty-three years. Of late years,however, he has devoted him-self more exclusively to Officeand Chamber practice, Or-phans Court business, settle-ment of Estates and filling theposition of advisory Counseland Solicitor for several banks,corporations and other institu-tions of a similar the late Civil War took a firm position insupport of the Government,and with the late BenjaminGerhard, George H. Bokerand a few other equally patri-otic citizens, in the early dark. the systematic stud}- of the principles of the Constitution of theUflited States as a branch of instruction in schools he proposed theConstitutional Text Book, and the First Book of the Constitutionwhich was published in 1855, and since largely used as text booksin schools and colleges. In 1S68 he was nominated as the Demo-cratic candidate for the office of District Attorney for the City ofPhiladelphia and elected for the term of three years. In 1S74 hewas elected to the same office by a vote nearly 1,000 above theaverage received by the Democratic State ticket. He declined are-nomination for a third term and resumed his private 1877 and the succeeding year he was a candidate for an existingvacancy on the Supreme Bench, but was defeated for nominationby the Democratic Convention through a defection in the Philadel-phia delegation, losing the nomination however in the former yearby only one vote. By appointment of the Judges of th
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