Henry S. Dewey
Henry S. Dewey | |
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Boston Common Council | |
In office 1885–1888 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Henry Sweetser Dewey November 9, 1856 Hanover, New Hampshire |
Died | May 12, 1932 Boston, Massachusetts | (aged 75)
Political party | Republican |
Education | |
Occupation | Jurist, politician |
Henry Sweetser Dewey (1856–1932) was an American jurist and politician who served as a judge of the Boston Municipal Court and Judge Advocate General of Massachusetts.
Early life
Dewey was born on November 9, 1856, in Hanover, New Hampshire, to Major General Israel Dewey and Susan Augusta (Sweetser) Dewey.[1] He was a second cousin of Admiral George Dewey.[2] He grew up near military posts in the western and southwestern parts of the United States.[3] He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College in 1878 and his Master of Arts degree from Dartmouth in 1879. While at Dartmouth he served as a paymaster's clerk in the United States Army.[4]
In 1879 the Army transferred Dewey to Boston.
Politics
On September 29, 1885, Dewey was elected to the
Legal career
In 1891, Dewey was made a member of the Suffolk County Board of Bar Examiners. In 1895 he was named chairman of the board.[1] In 1897 he was appointed to a five-year term as a member of the Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners.[8]
In 1896 he was appointed as a special justice for the Boston Municipal Court.[9] In 1899 he was made an associate justice of the Boston Municipal Court.[4] Dewey was known for being outspoken on the bench as well as sympathetic towards defendants. Police officers were known to not seek search warrants from him because Dewey would ask them after the search if they had found anything. Dewey was especially sympathetic towards people arrested for drunkenness, as he viewed alcoholism as more of an illness than a crime.[2] In 1902, The Boston Daily Globe called Dewey "the best-known and most interesting man in [Boston]".[10] On December 10, 1902, Dewey resigned from the bench to return to private practice.[11]
On January 4, 1900, he joined the military staff of Governor Winthrop M. Crane as Judge Advocate General.[6] He was retained by Crane's successor, John L. Bates.[12] In 1904, Democrat William Lewis Douglas defeated Bates and chose to remove all of Bates' staff, including Dewey.[13]
Run for mayor
In 1905, Dewey ran for
Commitment
In 1909, Dewey announced that he was running as a "theocratic candidate for governor".
In 1909, Dewey filed a $76 million libel suit against the executive committee of the Good Government Association (Laurence Minot, Eliot N. Jones, John Mason Little, George R. Nutter, and
On February 9, 1912, Dewey was found to be mentally ill and was committed to Boston State Hospital by Judge Robert Grant.[23] He remained there until his death on May 12, 1932.[1][3]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Ex-Judge Dewey of Boston Dead". The Boston Daily Globe. May 14, 1932. p. 15. Retrieved January 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d e "Decisions Have Made Him Famous". The Boston Daily Globe. October 14, 1901. p. 7. Retrieved January 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Henry S. Dewey Dead; Former Boston Judge". The New York Times. May 14, 1932.
- ^ a b "New Judges". The Boston Daily Globe. May 11, 1899. p. 7. Retrieved January 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Judge Dewey's Unique New House". The Boston Daily Globe. October 18, 1903. p. 45. Retrieved January 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c "Judge Dewey For Mayor". The Boston Daily Globe. October 10, 1905. pp. 1, 4. Retrieved January 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Councilman Henry S. Dewey". The Boston Daily Globe. September 30, 1885. p. 8. Retrieved January 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "New Bar Examiners". The Boston Daily Globe. October 26, 1897. p. 4. Retrieved January 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Dewey's Nomination Confirmed". The Boston Daily Globe. April 10, 1896. p. 3. Retrieved January 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Judge Henry S. Dewey Of The Municipal Court A Manly Man, Who Means And Tries Always To Be Exactly Just". The Boston Daily Globe. October 14, 1901. p. 8. Retrieved January 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Dewey Is Out". The Boston Daily Globe. December 10, 1902. pp. 1, 4. Retrieved January 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Gov-Elect Bates Names His Military Family". The Boston Daily Globe. December 11, 1902. p. 3. Retrieved January 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Miles As Chief". The Boston Daily Globe. December 10, 1904. p. 8. Retrieved January 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Frothingham Gains A Few". The Boston Daily Globe. November 18, 1905. pp. 1, 8. Retrieved January 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Annual Report of the Board of Election Commissioners". City of Boston. 1905. p. 138. Retrieved March 18, 2018 – via archive.org.
- ^ "Dewey Is A Candidate". The Boston Daily Globe. November 22, 1905. pp. 1, 8. Retrieved January 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Annual Report of the Board of Election Commissioners". City of Boston. 1905. p. 171. Retrieved March 18, 2018 – via archive.org.
- ^ "Dewey Must Cut Politics". The Boston Daily Globe. October 3, 1909. p. 2. Retrieved January 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "For 12 Hours Dewey Talks On Common". The Boston Daily Globe. October 4, 1909. pp. 1, 8. Retrieved January 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Dewey's Papers Are Contested". The Boston Daily Globe. October 12, 1909. p. 16. Retrieved January 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "$76,000,000 Suit On Trial". The New York Times. Boston. June 3, 1909. p. 3. Retrieved January 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Dewey Loses Libel Suit". The Boston Daily Globe. June 10, 1909. p. 1. Retrieved January 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Judge Dewey Found Insane". The Boston Daily Globe. February 10, 1912. p. 3. Retrieved January 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Sues 21 Public Officials". The New York Times. Boston. October 10, 1911. p. 2. Retrieved January 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.