Show A GRAND OLD MAS LATZ JUDGE TRUMBULL OP RIGHT Us B to reveral political bantes parti mil and served bet red in the banate darang the th WM sketch of eno bl long lone and useful couves HE late lyman 1 trumbull was one of Chi cagos best known and most highly esteemed citizens he was affiliated bated with a largo large number of influential organizations among them being the american bar association I 1 ro r 0 bols club and the board of counselors of ef the chicago college of dental surgery his political career was an interesting one he was born in colchester C lonn conn oct 12 1813 and during the long pera period of his lifetime held many high offices among the latter were those of united lulled states senator justice of the supreme court of the state of illinois and state representative he migrated to illinois in 1837 and settled in belleville st clair county in 1840 he was elected electa representative in the state legislature where he served two tw 0 years ears after that he became a candidate for several of flees but was unsuccessful until 1848 when he was elected one of the justices of the state supreme court four years later he was reelected elected re for a term of nine years but he resigned in 1853 his career as a united states senator began in 1855 when he was elected to serve erve six years at the expiration of this term he was reelected elected re tor for a similar period and in 67 he was made senator for the third time during his three terms of senatorial incumbency he attracted wide notice through his prominent identification with matters which were shaking the public mind when the slave question was the theme on every tongue mr trumbull abandoned the policy of the democratic party with which he had been prominently identified and espoused the cause of 0 freedom he was the first to propose an amendment to the constitution abolishing slavery i A j I 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 X ja THE LATE JUDGE TRUMBULL in the thirty seventh congress he took a prominent part in the discussions relating to the following mw ures on the transfer of certain suits to the th united reunited states courts on the discharge of state prisoners and on compensated pen sated emancipation in missouri in the thirty eighth congress he was prominent in debates resulting from the following mea measures on the oath of a senator on colored voters in montana on amending the constitution and on confiscation one of the political meetings in which he took a prominent part and which la is of more local interest perhaps than some other even more important matters was that held in april 1854 when prominent state politicians including both democrats and whigs who were opposed to the course of stephen A douglas in the senate convened in the tremont house abraham lincoln lyman trumbull mark skinner 0 H browning john E stewart david davis norman B judd J young scammon francis C sherman and other well known men were present at this meeting the politicians pledged themselves to support the antine anti ne braska party and appointed a committee tee to agitate the subject the state vote of 1880 when mr trumbull was waa pitted as the democratic candidate for governor against shelby M cullom republican shows the popularity of the democratic candidate at that time mr cullom won out by a vote of to votes tor for trumbull Trum buU mr mp trumbull was a member of the law nm firm of trumbull Trum buU Wash bume bobbins |