. The story of the Hall of fame, including the lives and portraits of the elect and of those who barely missed election. Also a list of America's most eligible women. found himself again in his old home afteran absence of five years. At the end of six years of service as Associate Justice ofthe Supreme Court, Kent was, in 1804, advanced to the posi-tion of Chief Justice. For the twenty-five years during which Judge Kentoccupied the Bench of either Supreme Court or of the Courtof Chancery, he made Albany his home. In February, 1814,he was appointed Chancellor. He says of it: The office I took w
. The story of the Hall of fame, including the lives and portraits of the elect and of those who barely missed election. Also a list of America's most eligible women. found himself again in his old home afteran absence of five years. At the end of six years of service as Associate Justice ofthe Supreme Court, Kent was, in 1804, advanced to the posi-tion of Chief Justice. For the twenty-five years during which Judge Kentoccupied the Bench of either Supreme Court or of the Courtof Chancery, he made Albany his home. In February, 1814,he was appointed Chancellor. He says of it: The office I took with considerable reluctance. It hadno charms. The person who left it was stupid, and it is acurious fact that for the nine years I was in that office therewas not a single decision, opinion, or dictum of either of mytwo predecessors cited to me, or even suggested. I took theCourt as if it had been a new institution, and never beforeknown in the United States. I had nothing to guide me, andwas left at liberty to assume all such English Chancerypowers and jurisdiction as I thought applicable under ourConstitution. This gave me grand scope, and I was checked 274. 1 only by the revision of the Senate or Court of Errors. Iopened the gates of the Court immediately and admitted,almost gratuitously the first year, eighty-five counsellors,though I found there had not been thirteen admitted forthirteen years before. Business flowed in with a rapid tide. On the 31 st day of July, 1823, Chancellor Kent reachedthe age of 60 years, and was retired by the limitations of thelaw at that time. On his retirement from official life, ad-dresses were presented to him by the Bar of the city ofNew York, of Albany, and of the entire State, expressive oftheir veneration, regard, and gratitude toward him, andtheir sense of the value of his judicial labors during thetwenty-five years in which he had occupied seats upon theBench. He immediately removed to New York City, establishedan office for chamber pra
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