LeBaron Bradford Colt

LeBaron Bradford Colt ( born June 25, 1846 in Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, † August 18 1924 in Bristol, Rhode Iceland ) was an American lawyer and politician ( Republican) of the state of Rhode Iceland in the U.S. Senate represented.

Life

After schooling Colt graduated from the Williston- seminar, a preparatory school for college in East Hampton. In 1868 he passed his bachelor's examination at Yale University, before he graduated in 1870 at Columbia University for a Bachelor of Laws.

After returning from a year-long trip to Europe, he was admitted to the bar and began to practice as a lawyer in Chicago. In 1875, he moved to Bristol (Rhode Iceland ); his activities as a lawyer, he continued in Providence.

Activity as a judge

On March 9, 1881 Colt was appointed by U.S. President James A. Garfield judge at the Federal District Court for the District of Rhode Iceland. The U.S. Senate confirmed him shortly thereafter. Garfield's successor, Chester A. Arthur, three years later appointed him to the United States Circuit Court in 1891, he eventually became a judge at the newly created Federal Court of Appeals for the 1st Judicial District.

Political career

From 1879 to 1881 Colt already belonged to the House of Representatives from Rhode Iceland. In 1913 he was elected by the General Assembly of the State in the U.S. Senate. He succeeds Republican George P. Wetmore, who had in 1907 still prevailed in the election against his younger brother Samuel P. Colt as internal party opponents. After the election, he resigned from his position as a judge back.

In the Senate, he was from 1917 to 1919 chairman of the committee for the preservation of natural resources. From 1919 until his death in 1924, he stood before the committee responsible for immigration. He was buried in Juniper Hill Cemetery in Bristol.