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Full leather. Etat : Fair. 1853. 820 pages. Leather binding worn and soiled. Part of spine gone. Copy was bound for Leslie Ryan. There is a long inscription on flyleaf to Leslie Ryan by his father Edward G. Ryan who was the special prosecutor in the Impeachment proceedings. . Some page foxing and marks. Some hinge weakness. Contains a lengthy opening argument by Ryan and witness questioning. Levi Hubbell (April 15, 1808 - December 8, 1876) was a United States jurist and politician. Hubbell graduated from Union College in 1827 and was admitted to the New York Bar. Hubbell was adjutant general of the New York Militia and served in the New York Assembly in 1841. In the 1840s, Hubbell moved to Wisconsin Territory. When Wisconsin was admitted to the union, he was elected one of the Wisconsin Circuit Court judges, which at that time constituted the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Hubbell became chief justice of the supreme court but lost the nomination for a seat in 1853. Hubbell became a circuit court judge again, but was impeached and acquitted by the Wisconsin State Legislature on charges of corruption. In 1863, he was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly. In 1871, he was appointed United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, but was forced to resign in 1875 because of accusations of corruption. Edward G. Ryan (1810-1880) Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice (1874-1880) Chief Justice (1874-1880). Edward George Ryan was born in County Meath, Ireland, on November 13, 1810. He attended a Jesuit college outside of Dublin before coming to the United States at age 20. He settled in New York City and studied law. Ryan moved to Racine, Wisconsin. He was elected to the 1846 state Constitutional Convention and played a key role in drafting Wisconsin's first constitution which the territory's voters rejected. In 1848, he moved to Milwaukee and was active in politics. As a lawyer, Ryan was involved in many important cases in Wisconsin history. In 1853, he was the special prosecutor in the impeachment proceedings against Milwaukee Circuit Judge and former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Levi Hubbell. Ryan's strengths and weaknesses came to the fore in 1853 when he acted as prosecutor in the impeachment trial of Circuit Judge Levi Hubbell before the Wisconsin state senate. The charges against Hubbell involved acts such as talking with litigants outside his court and giving advice to lawyers in cases pending before him; though such acts are clearly unethical under modern standards, they reflected court practices that were all too common in the 1850s. Ryan spared no oratorical effort to paint Hubbell in dark colors, informing the legislature that if it acquitted Hubbell, it should erect a new statue of Justice in the capitol: "A jaded, decayed, broken, unclean, diseased wanton, blinking from behind the distorted bandages put upon her eyes to dupe the scruples of mankind. Neither man triumphed. Hubbell was acquitted, but Ryan's attacks ruined his career; Ryan's intensity won him respect but little affection. Nevertheless, after Ryan's crusade "Wisconsin judges paused before they acted, and the crudities of frontier morality gradually disappeared from the courtroom." In 1854, Ryan prosecuted abolitionist Sherman M. Booth for violating the Fugitive Slave Law. Booth was represented by Byron Paine, who also became a Supreme Court justice. A year later, Ryan represented Coles Bashford in the famous Bashford v. Barstow case in which the Wisconsin Supreme Court removed an incumbent governor from office after it was discovered that his victory resulted from fraud. Ryan had a quick and violent temper which alienated colleagues and clients alike. He was elected city attorney of Milwaukee and held the post for three years. In June 1874, Ryan was appointed to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. His personality and outspoken convictions made his appointment controversial. His intelligence and legal insight made him suitable for the job. Perhaps his best known opinion was written in respon.