James H. Quinn

James H. Quinn

James H. Quinn (June 23, 1857 – February 15, 1930) was an American jurist.

Born in Kilbourn City, Wisconsin, Quinn moved with his parents to a farm in Blue Earth County, Minnesota in 1863. He graduated from an academy in Poynette, Wisconsin in 1880. Quinn then studied the law, in Mapleton, Minnesota, and was admitted to the Minnesota bar in 1885 in Mankato, Minnesota. He was elected county attorney for Faribault County, Minnesota in 1888. From 1897 until 1916, Quinn served as Minnesota District Court judge. Quinn was on the board of directors of the First National Bank of Wells, in Wells, Minnesota. Quinn served on the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1917 until his retirement in 1928. Quinn died of heart problems at his home in Saint Paul, Minnesota.^[1]^[2]

Notes

↑ Minnesota State Law Library-James H. Quinn
↑ Quinn, Former Supreme Court Justices, Dies Today, Albert Lea Evening Tribune (Minnesota), February 15, 1930, p. 1.

Minnesota Supreme Court Justices

Territorial (1849–1858)	Goodrich Cooper Meeker Fuller Hayner Chatfield Sherburne Welch R. Nelson Flandrau

State (since 1858)	Flandrau Atwater Emmett T. Wilson McMillan Berry Gilfillan Ripley Young Cornell Mitchell Clark Dickinson Vanderburgh Collins Buck Canty Start C. Brown Lovely Lewis Douglas Jaggard Elliott O'Brien Simpson Bunn P. Brown Holt Hallam Schaller Quinn Dibell S. Wilson Stone Hilton Olsen Loring Devaney Olson H. Peterson H. Gallagher Streissguth Pirsig Youngdahl T. Gallagher Magney Matson W. Christianson F. Gallagher Knutson T. Christianson Dell M. Nelson Murphy Loevinger Otis Rogosheske Sheran C.D. Peterson F. Kelly Todd MacLaughlin Yetka Scott Wahl Amdahl Simonett G. Kelley Coyne Popovich Keith Tomljanovich Ogren Page P. Anderson Stringer Blatz Gilbert R. Anderson Ericksen Meyer Hanson G.B. Anderson Gildea Dietzen Magnuson Stras Wright Lillehaug Hudson Chutich McKeig

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