Hiram Denio

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Hiram Denio
Hiram Denio
Born	May 21, 1799 (1799-05-21) Rome, New York
Died	November 5, 1871 (1871-11-06) (aged 72) Utica, New York
Occupation	American politician and lawyer

Hiram Denio (May 21, 1799 in Rome, Oneida County, New York - November 5, 1871 in Utica, Oneida County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1856 to 1857 and from 1862 to 1865.

Life

He was District Attorney of Oneida County from 1825 to 1834, Judge of the Fifth Circuit Court from 1834 to 1838, and one of three bank commissioners from 1838 to 1840.

He was Clerk of the New York Supreme Court from 1845 to 1847 and published 31 volumes of law reports:

Reports in Supreme Court and Court of Errors (from May 1845 to May 1847; 5 vol.)
Cases in the Court of Errors (from 1840 to 1846, appeals; 12 vol.)
Cases in the Court of Errors (from 1830 to 1846, writs of error; 14 vol.)

On June 23, 1853, he was appointed by Governor Horatio Seymour a judge of the New York Court of Appeals to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Freeborn G. Jewett. In November 1853, he was re-elected to fill the unexpired term of Jewett until 1857. In November 1857, he was re-elected to a full eight-year term, and remained on the bench until the end of 1865. He was Chief Judge from 1856 to 1857 and, after the resignation of Samuel L. Selden, from July 1862 until the end of his term. He died in 1871, and was buried at the Forest Hill Cemetery in Utica, NY.

Sources

Albany Law Journal (Weed, Parsons & Co., 1871)
The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 39, 346, 348, 356 and 377; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)

Legal offices
Preceded by Addison Gardiner	Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals 1856–1857	Succeeded by Alexander S. Johnson
Preceded by Samuel L. Selden	Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals 1862–1865	Succeeded by Henry E. Davies

v t e Chief Judges of the New York Court of Appeals

Jewett Bronson Ruggles Gardiner Denio Johnson Comstock Selden Denio Davies Wright Hunt Earl Church Folger Andrews Ruger Earl Andrews Parker Cullen Bartlett Hiscock Cardozo Pound Crane Lehman Loughran Lewis Conway Desmond Fuld Breitel Cooke Wachtler Simons* Kaye Lippman

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Persondata
Name	Denio, Hiram
Alternative names
Short description	American politician
Date of birth	May 21, 1799
Place of birth
Date of death	November 5, 1871
Place of death

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