. A Souvenir of Massachusetts legislators. that State and later inMassachusetts, and has been practising in Boston since 1871. His first public officewas as a member of the lower branch of the Legislature in 1876, 1877 and 1878. In1884, 1885 and 1886 he sat in the Senate. His chief committee service in both brancheswas on the judiciary, and in his last two years in the Senate he occupied the presidentschair. He was offered and declined an appointment to the superior court bench in 1888,and in the following year he was tendered the position of corporation counsel for thecity of Boston. In 1890
. A Souvenir of Massachusetts legislators. that State and later inMassachusetts, and has been practising in Boston since 1871. His first public officewas as a member of the lower branch of the Legislature in 1876, 1877 and 1878. In1884, 1885 and 1886 he sat in the Senate. His chief committee service in both brancheswas on the judiciary, and in his last two years in the Senate he occupied the presidentschair. He was offered and declined an appointment to the superior court bench in 1888,and in the following year he was tendered the position of corporation counsel for thecity of Boston. In 1890 he was elected to his present office. His skill and ability inhandling the celebrated Trefethen murder case in Boston, in the spring of 1892, wonthe highest praise from all who witnessed them. Vote of the State: Albert E. Pillsbury, Republican, 151,182; George M. Steams,Democrat, 138,865; Wolcott Hamlin, Prohibition, 10,590; Herbert Mcintosh, PeoplesParty, 3,387; James Waldock, Socialist Labor, 1,539. UA88 \ in SETTfl LEOI8L ITORS, l-^--. Hon. W. M, OLIN, Secretary. Hon. G. A. MARDEN, Treasurer. His Honor W. H. HAILE, J. W. KIMBALL, Auditor. Hon. A. E. PILLSBURY, Attorney-General. 10 A SOUVENIR OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL. DISTRICT No. 1. Hon. Isaac Newton Keith, Republican, of Bourne, is a manufacturer of rail-way cars. He was born Nov. 14, 1838, in West Sandwich, Mass , and received acommon school education. In the House in 1875 and 1876 he was a member of thecommittee on Hoosac Tunnel and also of several special committees, and in the Senateof 1887 and 1888 he was appointed to the committees on harbors and public lands,mercantile affairs and railroads. He has been postmaster of Bourne, and was amember of the council in 1889, 1890, 1891 and 1892. In 1892, on committees onfinance, harbors and public lands, charitable institutions, prisons, military affairs andrailroads. Vote of district: Isaac 1ST. Keith, Republican, 16,670; Frederick A. Bradford,Democrat
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