Show A GJlAiND OLD MAX TUB LATE JUDaIC TRUMUULL A VETEI1AN OF HIOHT 1 Its llttenail in aerl nllll1 1 arll 000 cereal In 110 IInl 1Iln he hIkh or limo long nI Itlol i Crr i Hi late Iyman I Trumbull was ono t i r of known Chicagos and teat best i if i highly esteemed ell Urns lie wns allll Intrd with n largo number of Influential f P Influen-tial organisations among them being 7 the American liar association I ro quols club and Ibo board of counselors of the Chicago College of Dental Ours ery Ills political career was nn Inter ruling one He was born In Colchester Conn Oct 12 1813 and during the long period of his lifetime hell many high offices Among the latter were thoie of United Slates senator Justice of the cuprem court of the state of Illinois and stale representative He migrated to Illinois Illi-nois In 1887 and settled In llellevllle HI ClaIr county In 1810 ho was elected representative In the slate legislature where he served two years After that he became a candidate for rcveral of flees but was unsuccessful until ISIS when he wa elected ono of tho Justices of the state supremo court Tour years later he was reelected for n term of nine years but he resigned In 1853 Ills career as a United Stapes senator began In ISIS when ho was elected to servo six years At the expiration cf this term ho was reelected for n similar sim-ilar period and In C7 ha was mode senator sen-ator for the third time During his three terms of senatorial Incumbency ho attracted wide nollco through his prominent Identification with matters which were shaking the public mind When the slate question was tho theme on every tongue Mr Trumlnill abandoned aban-doned the policy of time democratic party par-ty with which he had been prominently prominent-ly Identified and espoused limo ante of freedom lie was time first to propose an amendment to limo constitution nbol lining slavery 4 I c1m TILE LATE JUROR TIIUMIIULL In the Thlrtysovcntli I congress he I took a prominent ol part Ijn time I discussions discus-sions relating to tho following measures meas-ures On the transfer of certain suits to the United States court on the discharge dis-charge of state prisoners and on compensated com-pensated emancipation In Missouri In Ibo Thirtyeighth congress he Will prominent In debate resulting from tho following measures On tho oath of a senator on colored voters In Montana on amending the constitution I constitu-tion and on confiscation Ono of Ibo political meetings In which ho took n prominent part and which ho I of moro local Interest perhaps per-haps than some other oven more Important Im-portant matters nas that held In April 1851 when prominent state politicians Including both democrats and whlgs who were opposed to the course of Stephen A Douglas In tho senate convened con-vened In the Tremont house Abraham Lincoln Lyman Trumbull Mark Skinner Skin-ner O II Drowning John II Stewart David Davis Normnn II Judd J Young ficammon Francis C Sherman and other wellknown men wcro present At this meeting the politicians pledged themselves to support the nnllNe bras ka party and appointed n commit tea to agitato limo subject The stats loto of 1880 when Mr Trumbull was pitted 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 n vote of 3HK5 to 277632 votes for Trumbull Mr Trumbull was a member of the law firm of Trumbull Wnshburne 4 Itobblns |