| Birth: | Dec. 16, 1828
Baltimore
Baltimore City
Maryland, USA | | Death: | Oct. 24, 1893
Baltimore
Baltimore City
Maryland, USA | 
Jurist. He received his education in New York City, and was a graduate of the University of the City of New York in 1848. He returned to Baltimore to study law, and was admitted to the Maryland Bar in 1851. He practiced law in Baltimore until 1860, when he was appointed Judge of Baltimore's Criminal Court by the Governor. Subsequently, he was elected to that post, which he held until 1867, when he resumed private law practice. During the Civil War he supported the Union cause and President Lincoln. He was affiliated with the Know Nothing Party and subsequently joined the Republican Party. He was an advocate of military service by slaves in the Union Army. In 1864 he spearheaded the formation of a freedmen's bureau, the Baltimore Association for the Moral and Educational Improvement of the Colored People, nicknamed "Timbuctoo." He established schools for African-Americans in every Maryland county, and opened teachers' training schools. He championed African-American causes, fighting for passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, which permitted black men to vote. His racial views made him highly controversial in his home state of Maryland. In 1870, President Grant appointed him to the United States Circuit Court for the Fourth District. He achieved national prominence by presiding over the South Carolina Ku Klux Klan trials of 1871 to 1872, convicting and sentencing those defendants who were found guilty. In 1891 he was reassigned to the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and was serving as Chief Judge at the time of his death. (bio by: Rita Janice Traub)
Search Amazon for Hugh Bond | | | Burial:
Green Mount Cemetery
Baltimore
Baltimore City
Maryland, USA
Plot: Section K, Lot 3. |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Originally Created by: Rita Janice Traub
Record added: May 22, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 37368032 |
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