William Virgil Peck

William V. Peck (April 17, 1804 – December 30, 1877) was a Republican politician in the U.S. State of Ohio who was an Ohio Supreme Court Judge 1859–1864.

Born April 17, 1804 in Canandaigua, New York,^[1] William V. Peck grew up in Connecticut, where he studied law. He moved to Scioto County, Ohio, and had a law practice. In 1844, the Whig Ohio General Assembly elected him a Common Pleas Judge. With the new Constitution in 1851, the public elected him and re-elected him to the same seat in 1856.^[2]

In 1858, as a Republican, Peck defeated incumbent Democrat Thomas Welles Bartley as Judge on the Ohio Supreme Court.^[3] He declined re-nomination for the 1863 election.^[2] Peck died December 30, 1877.^[1]

Notes

^ ^a ^b Kinkead 1895 : 275
^ ^a ^b Smith 1898 : 85
^ Smith 1898 : 84

References

Smith, Joseph P, ed (1898). History of the Republican Party in Ohio. I. Chicago: the Lewis Publishing Company. http://books.google.com/books?id=eaAFAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA66.
Kinkead, Edgar B (1895). "Supreme Court of Ohio". The Green bag: an entertaining magazine of the law 7. http://books.google.com/books?id=zg6SAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA274.

Persondata
Name	Peck, William Virgil
Alternative names
Short description	Ohio Jurist
Date of birth	April 17, 1804
Place of birth	Canandaigua, New York United States
Date of death	December 30, 1877
Place of death

Legal offices
Preceded by Thomas Welles Bartley	Ohio Supreme Court Judges 1859-1864	Succeeded by Hocking H. Hunter

William Virgil Peck

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