Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . hnson, Mrs. Mary C. Hunt and Elizabeth(), William. Edward, Mrs. Ellen C. Kice,and Erances. RUSSELL S. TAET, chief justice of theSupreme Court of the State of Vev-mont, was l)orn at Williston, Nermoiit, .himi-ary -8, 1835. lie aci|uiixd his education inthe local schools and by private study, andafter a thorough legal i)i-eparation was ad-mitted to the bar of Cliittendcn coiuitv in lUOGRAPHICAL—VERMONT. 27 November, 1851), tliree years after lie liad re-mo
Memoirs of the judiciary and the bar of New England for the nineteenth century : with a history of the judicial system of New England . hnson, Mrs. Mary C. Hunt and Elizabeth(), William. Edward, Mrs. Ellen C. Kice,and Erances. RUSSELL S. TAET, chief justice of theSupreme Court of the State of Vev-mont, was l)orn at Williston, Nermoiit, .himi-ary -8, 1835. lie aci|uiixd his education inthe local schools and by private study, andafter a thorough legal i)i-eparation was ad-mitted to the bar of Cliittendcn coiuitv in lUOGRAPHICAL—VERMONT. 27 November, 1851), tliree years after lie liad re-moved to Ikirlington to reside. In May, ,Judge Taft returned to Williston to live, butremained tbere only a sbort time, and formany years jiast bas been a citizen of Diuling-ton. \ery early in bis piofessional career be ac-(juired a reputation as a well read, conscien-tious and bard-working lawyer; lie madefriends rapidly, and very naturally early inills legal career became a candidate for tbesuffrages of tbe people. liom 1861 to 18()4 bewas a member of tbe board of selectmen of tbetown of I5urlington, and from 18(15 to 1869. KlSSELI. S. TAI-T. served as an alderman of tbe city ofBurlington. He was States attorneyfor Cbittenden county from 1862 to 1865; asenator from tbat county in 1865 and 1866;city attorney for tbe city of Burlington in 1871and 1872; from 1872 to 1874 Judge Taft waslieutenant governor of tbe State of \ermont,and registrar of piobate in tbe district ofCiiittenden from to 1880. In tbe latteryear lie the city of Burlington intbe legislature; also in 1880 be was electedsixtb assistant judge of tbe Supreme Court ofVermont, since wbicb time be lias been bi- enniall} placed on tlie bencb by bis constitu-ents, part of tbe time being first assistant judgeand for several years cbicf justice. A memberof the bar writes: As a judge be bas broughtto the bench, as he did to tbe bar, great purityand uprightness of character, learning, love ofprofessio
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