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The Herald Advance
Milbank, Grant County, South Dakota
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Overview of South Dakota Supreme Court judges since its organization on November 21, 1889. Original members: Dighton Corson, A. G. Kellam, John F. Bennett. Three of eight judges have died: Bennett, Kellam, Fuller. Appointments followed deaths and resignation: Fuller replaced Bennett, Haney replaced Kellam, Whiting replaced Fuller.
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Pierre.--Since the organization of the South Dakota supreme court November 21, 1889, there have been eight different judges on the bench, beginning with Judges Dighton Corson, A. G. Kellam and John F. Bennett, at the time there were but three members of the court. Out of the eight men who have sat on the supreme bench, three, Judges Bennett, Kellam and Fuller are dead. The first break in the original line up of the court was by the death of Judge Bennett, and the vacancy caused by his death was filled by the appointment of Judge Fuller, from the sixth circuit bench; the next vacancy was by the resignation of Judge Kellam, which was filled by the appointment of Judge Haney, trial judge from the fourth circuit. The next vacancy was by the death of Judge Fuller, which was filled by the appointment of Trial Judge C. S. Whiting, of the ninth circuit.
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Pierre
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November 21, 1889
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judges bennett, kellam, and fuller are dead; kellam resigned; appointments: fuller for bennett, haney for kellam, whiting for fuller.
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Since the organization of the South Dakota supreme court November 21, 1889, there have been eight different judges on the bench, beginning with Judges Dighton Corson, A. G. Kellam and John F. Bennett. Out of the eight men who have sat on the supreme bench, three, Judges Bennett, Kellam and Fuller are dead. The first break in the original line up of the court was by the death of Judge Bennett, and the vacancy caused by his death was filled by the appointment of Judge Fuller, from the sixth circuit bench; the next vacancy was by the resignation of Judge Kellam, which was filled by the appointment of Judge Haney, trial judge from the fourth circuit. The next vacancy was by the death of Judge Fuller, which was filled by the appointment of Trial Judge C. S. Whiting, of the ninth circuit.