Jeremiah Sullivan

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Jeremiah C. Sullivan (July 21, 1794 – December 6, 1870) was a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court from 1837 to 1846 and coined the name "Indianapolis" for the new state capital.

Jeremiah Sullivan's father, Thomas Littleton Sullivan, was the son of an Irish

He built his home in 1818 and from this base went on to carve a career as state legislator, state supreme court judge, county judge, Presbyterian elder, and Mason. He helped found nearby Hanover College and the Indiana Historical Society. Sullivan's public career was immediately successful. Jonathan Jennings, the first Governor of Indiana, quickly appointed him prosecuting attorney in Madison and within three years of his arrival he was elected a member of the state legislature. While in the General Assembly, he gave Indianapolis its name. He was a member of the Indiana Supreme Court from 1837 to 1846. In 1869, a criminal court was created for Jefferson County, and he was appointed judge.

Judge Sullivan's house, the Jeremiah Sullivan House, in Madison, is acknowledged to have been the first brick mansion built in the Northwest Territory. It is now on tour and is a component of the Madison Historic District.

Among his sons were Algernon Sydney Sullivan, founder of the Sullivan & Cromwell law firm in New York, and Jeremiah C. Sullivan and Thomas Crook Sullivan, Civil War generals.

References

• Browning, Minde C.; Humphrey, Richard; Kleinschmidt, Bruce (1997). "Biographical Sketches of Indiana Supreme Court Justices" (PDF). Indiana Law Review. 30 (1). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-09-01.
• Indiana Magazine of History, "Jeremiah C. Sullivan, Hoosier Jurist"
• Indiana Supreme Court biography
• The Jeremiah Sullivan House (Madison, Indiana) website
• https://sites.google.com/view/historicmadisoninc/hmi-properties/sullivan-house

See also

• List of justices of the Indiana Supreme Court