George Tyler Bigelow.

George Tyler Bigelow.

Portraits.; Bigelow, George Tyler-- 1810-1878.;

Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, 1860 -- 1867. He was also a college roommate to Oliver Wendell Holmes. When George Tyler Bigelow graduated from Harvard in the class of 1839 at age 19, he was deemed too young to begin a career in law and so was sent to Maryland to gain a broader knowledge of the world through teaching. Upon his return to Massachusetts, he read law in his father's office and was admitted to the bar in 1835. Bigelow served in both chambers of the state legislature and as a common pleas judge, and was later appointed as Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, where he eventually succeeded Lemuel Shaw as Chief Justice. He was born in Watertown, Mass.

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