1. Bartlett Tripp was a diplomat, Chief Justice of the Dakota Territory Supreme Court, first professor of the University of South Dakota College of Law and first President of the South Dakota Bar Association.
10 Facts About Bartlett Tripp
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Bartlett Tripp was initially considered as a nominee for Vice President of the United States by his law school classmate and best friend William McKinley.
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Bartlett Tripp entered Colby College in 1857, but left without graduating in 1861 to travel to California.
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Bartlett Tripp eventually returned to Maine to regain his health.
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Bartlett Tripp then attended Albany Law School, graduating in 1867.
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Bartlett Tripp was active in Democratic Party politics, serving as Dakota Territory party chairman, delegate to the national convention in 1872 and 1892, and in 1878 the Democratic candidate for the Territory's delegate in Congress.
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Bartlett Tripp was part of a commission that codified the laws of the territory in 1877 and again in 1903, and served as president of an 1883 Constitutional Convention of for Statehood of South Dakota.
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Bartlett Tripp later published a book on his experiences there.
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Bartlett Tripp was briefly considered a candidate to be the Republican nominee for vice president under McKinley in 1900, but he withdrew after Theodore Roosevelt entered the field.
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Bartlett Tripp died from heart disease at his home in Yankton, South Dakota on December 8,1911.