Experience Estabrook

Experience Estabrook (April 30, 1813 – March 26, 1894) was an American attorney and legal administrator active in territorial Wisconsin and Nebraska.^[1]

Born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, he moved with his parents to Clarence, New York, in 1822 where he attended the public schools. Estabrook then attended Dickinson College, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Estabrook graduated from the Chambersburg, Pennsylvania Law School, and then was admitted to the bar in Brooklyn, New York in 1839. He worked as a clerk at the Navy Yard in Brooklyn and later practiced law in Buffalo, New York. In 1840, he moved to Geneva, Wisconsin in 1840 and continued the practice of law. Estabrook was a delegate to the second Wisconsin State Constitutional Convention in 1848; in 1851, he became a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. He was Attorney General of Wisconsin in 1852 and 1853.^[2]

Estabrook was appointed by President Franklin Pierce the attorney general of the Territory of Nebraska and served from 1855 to 1859. He presented credentials as a Delegate-elect to the Thirty-sixth United States Congress and served from March 4, 1859, to May 18, 1860, when he was succeeded by Samuel G. Daily, who contested his election.^[3] Experience Estabrook was appointed by the Governor to codify the Nebraska State laws in 1866.

He then became the prosecuting attorney for Douglas County, Nebraska in 1867, and 1868. He was a member of the Nebraska State Constitutional Convention in 1871. Experience Estabrook died in Omaha, Nebraska, and was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Omaha.

His daughter Caroline was a composer. His son Henry Dodge Estabrook was a lawyer in New York City.

References

↑ Omaha Illustrated. Usgennet.org. Retrieved on January 22, 2016.
↑ Estabrook, Experience 1813 – 1894. Wisconsinhistory.org. Retrieved on January 22, 2016.
↑ Collections of the NSHS – Volume 19. Usgennet.org. Retrieved on January 22, 2016.

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Legal offices
Preceded by S. Park Coon	Attorney General of Wisconsin 1852–1854	Succeeded by George Baldwin Smith
United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Fenner Ferguson	Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from Nebraska Territory March 4, 1859 – May 18, 1860	Succeeded by Samuel G. Daily

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Nebraska

1st district	A. Weaver McShane Connell Bryan Strode Burkett Pollard Maguire Reavis Thorpe Morehead Luckey Heinke Sweet Copeland Curtis P. Weaver Beermann Callan Denney Thone Bereuter Fortenberry

2nd district	Laird Laws McKeighan Mercer G. Hitchcock Kennedy G. Hitchcock Lobeck Jefferis Sears Baldrige Burke C. McLaughlin Buffett O'Sullivan Buffett Hruska Chase Cunningham McCollister Cavanaugh Daub Hoagland Christensen Terry Ashford

3rd district	Valentine Dorsey Kem Meiklejohn Maxwell Robinson McCarthy Boyd Latta Stephens Evans Howard Stefan Harrison Brock Beermann Martin V. Smith Barrett Osborne A. Smith

4th district	Hainer Stark Hinshaw Sloan M. McLaughlin Norton Sloan Norton Shallenberger Binderup Curtis Miller McGinley Martin

5th district	McKeighan Andrews Sutherland Shallenberger Norris Barton Shallenberger Andrews Shallenberger Johnson Shallenberger Carpenter Coffee

6th district	Kem Greene Neville Kinkaid Humphrey Simmons

At-large	Marquette Taffe Crounse Welch Majors Valentine

Territory	Giddings Chapman Ferguson Estabrook Daily P. Hitchcock

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 36469488 LCCN: no00092072 US Congress: E000220

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