Supreme Court Associate Justice, 1910 Election

General

Date: November 8, 1910
Cycle: 1910
Office: Supreme Court Associate Justice
State: Minnesota
District: Statewide
Candidate Gender Party Votes Percent Margin
David Simpson Man Republican 135,035 31.63 +9.28
Edwin Jaggard Incumbent Man Republican 129,536 30.34 +7.99
Thomas D. O'Brien Incumbent Man Democrat 95,429 22.35
Arthur H. Snow Man Democrat 66,911 15.67

The 1910 cycle was the last cycle in which partisan elections were held for the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Associate Justice Jaggard was reelected to a second term. Jaggard died in office on February 13, 1911. Governor Adolph Eberhart appointed George Bunn to fill the vacancy on February 17, 1911 (taking the oath of office on March 1, 1911). Bunn was an attorney from St. Paul and sitting Second Judicial District Judge.

Associate Justice O'Brien was the eighth Justice to be defeated at the ballot box following appointed Associate Justice Greenleaf Clark in 1881, Republican Associate Justices Daniel Dickinson and Charles Vanderburgh in 1892, and Democratic Associated Justices Thomas Canty, William Mitchell, Daniel Buck in 1898, and Republican-turned-Democrat John Lovely in 1904. O'Brien was appointed by Governor John Johnson on September 1, 1909 following the resignation of Charles Elliott. O'Brien was an attorney from St. Paul, former Assistant St. Paul City Attorney, former Ramsey County Attorney, and former Minnesota Insurance Commissioner.

Simpson was a resident of Minneapolis, former Assistant City Attorney of Minneapolis, former City Attorney of Minneapolis (1893-1897), and sitting Hennepin County District Court judge. Simpson resigned effective January 2, 1912 to reenter private practice. Governor Adolph Eberhart appointed Andrew Holt to fill the vacancy effective January 2, 1912.

Snow was a resident of Winona, former Winona City Attorney, former Mayor of Winona, and sitting Third Judicial District Judge (1897-1915).

Sources

  • The Legislative Manual of the State of Minnesota, 1911 (p. 479).