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Supreme Court of Mississippi. school of that university. His familiarity with public men and measures invest his discourses on international and constitu tional law with peculiar interest for the stu dents, and it is pleasing to see them sitting at the feet of their venerable instructor. H. H. Chalmers was born in Halifax county, Virginia, in 1833. He graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1853, and began the practice of his profession in

De Soto county. He was devoted to the law and attained a high rank at the bar. He was a profound student and a fluent speaker. He never sought or held office except in the line of his profession. He was appointed to the supreme bench in 1876, and re-ap pointed at the ex piration of his term, and died suddenly Jan. 4, 1885. His opinions adorn the reports of the court. Joseph A. P. Campbell was born in South Carolina, March 2, 1830. Judge Campbell was ALBERT H. educated at David son College, North Carolina, and came directly to Madison county, Mississippi. He was admitted to the bar at Kosciusko, June 12, 1847, at the age of seventeen. He opened a law office at that place and conducted a large and profit able practice. He was elected to the legisture in 185], when he had just attained his majority. In 1859 he was reelected and then became speaker of the house. In 1861 when his State seceded, he was elected a delegate to the constitutional convention at

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Montgomery, Alabama. At the expiration of this service he enlisted in the Confederate army. He was made captain and afterwards promoted to the office of colonel. He was slightly wounded at the battle of Corinth. After the war he was elected circuit judge. In 1870, he served as one of the com missioners who framed the code of 1871, and in 1879, he performed like service in the construction of the code of 1880. He was appointed to the supremebenchin 1876, and served continu ously until 1895, when he declined re-appointment. He is forceful, eloquent and learned. He was chief justice during much of the period of his occupancy of the supreme bench. He is yet a practi tioner, but only ac cepts retainers in cases of interest or importance. James Z. George was born in Monroe county, Georgia, October 20, 1826. When he was eight years of age, his mother, then a wid W1ll1 FIELD. ow, removed to Nox ubee county, Mis sissippi, and thence, two years later, to Carroll county, where he received his educa tion in the common schools. He enlisted as private in the first regiment, Mississippi volunteers, in the Mexican;var, under the command of Colonel Jefferson Davis, and participated in the battle of Monterey. On his return, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in Carroll county. In 1854 he was elected reporter of the high court of errors and appeals, and served in that ca