Parents: Joseph Waite and Olive Davis
Admitted to the bar in 1836.
He came to Minnesota in 1860.
Judge of the Sixth judicial district 1870-1874
20th Legislative Session (1878)
Body: Senate
District: 14
Elected: 11/6/1877
Residence: Mankato
Term of Office: 1/8/1878 to 1/6/1879
Counties Represented: Blue Earth
Occupation: Lawyer
Party: Democratic
Party Notes: He was listed as a Democrat on the list of members posted after the 1877 election. ("The Next Legislature." St. Paul Pioneer Press, November 10, 1877)
Committees: Insane Asylum, Judiciary, Library, Roads and Bridges
Granted a US Patent for a Match-Safe on Nov 27, 1883.
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Born February 28th, 1813 in Windham County, Vermont and when he was three years of age, his parents moved to Jamestown, New York, where his father, Joseph Waite, was a prominent attorney for many years. At the age of twenty years, Franklin H began the study of law in his father's office, and three years later was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the State. Subsequently he held the office of postmaster at Jamestown. He was Democratic candidate for Congress in a district hopelessly against him and was only beaten by a few votes.
In June 1844, he married Adeline Holman. In 1846 he was appointed Judge of the Common Pleas and held the position until abolished by the Legislature. In 1852 he moved to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and thence in the spring of 1860 to Mankato, where he first formed a co-partnership with Cramer Burt and was afterwards associated at different times with General Tourtellotte, Morton S Wilkinson, E P Freeman and J E Porter.
After the Sioux war he was attorney for a large number of claimants for damages from Indian depredations. In 1864 he was village attorney under the first corporate organization of Mankato, and exercised an important influence in shaping and directing our local government. He rendered an invaluable service to our city in the able and fearless manner in which he prosecuted number of suits to recover streets, parks, levees and other public grounds from private greed.
In 1867 and again in 1877, he was elected State Senator and served with distinction. In 1869 at the solicitation of hundreds of voters irrespective of party, he became a candidate for Judge of the Sixth Judicial District, and was elected by a big majority. Resigning his position in 1874, he ran for Congress on the Democratic ticket against Mark H Dunnell, the Republican nominee, and was only beaten by a small majority though the district was overwhelming Republican. He died March 4th, 1884, leaving him surviving his wife and two children, Mrs Josephine Frisbie and Augustus F Waite, all of whom have since died.
[Mankato-Its First Fifty Years, 1902]
Admitted to the bar in 1836.
He came to Minnesota in 1860.
Judge of the Sixth judicial district 1870-1874
20th Legislative Session (1878)
Body: Senate
District: 14
Elected: 11/6/1877
Residence: Mankato
Term of Office: 1/8/1878 to 1/6/1879
Counties Represented: Blue Earth
Occupation: Lawyer
Party: Democratic
Party Notes: He was listed as a Democrat on the list of members posted after the 1877 election. ("The Next Legislature." St. Paul Pioneer Press, November 10, 1877)
Committees: Insane Asylum, Judiciary, Library, Roads and Bridges
Granted a US Patent for a Match-Safe on Nov 27, 1883.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Born February 28th, 1813 in Windham County, Vermont and when he was three years of age, his parents moved to Jamestown, New York, where his father, Joseph Waite, was a prominent attorney for many years. At the age of twenty years, Franklin H began the study of law in his father's office, and three years later was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the State. Subsequently he held the office of postmaster at Jamestown. He was Democratic candidate for Congress in a district hopelessly against him and was only beaten by a few votes.
In June 1844, he married Adeline Holman. In 1846 he was appointed Judge of the Common Pleas and held the position until abolished by the Legislature. In 1852 he moved to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and thence in the spring of 1860 to Mankato, where he first formed a co-partnership with Cramer Burt and was afterwards associated at different times with General Tourtellotte, Morton S Wilkinson, E P Freeman and J E Porter.
After the Sioux war he was attorney for a large number of claimants for damages from Indian depredations. In 1864 he was village attorney under the first corporate organization of Mankato, and exercised an important influence in shaping and directing our local government. He rendered an invaluable service to our city in the able and fearless manner in which he prosecuted number of suits to recover streets, parks, levees and other public grounds from private greed.
In 1867 and again in 1877, he was elected State Senator and served with distinction. In 1869 at the solicitation of hundreds of voters irrespective of party, he became a candidate for Judge of the Sixth Judicial District, and was elected by a big majority. Resigning his position in 1874, he ran for Congress on the Democratic ticket against Mark H Dunnell, the Republican nominee, and was only beaten by a small majority though the district was overwhelming Republican. He died March 4th, 1884, leaving him surviving his wife and two children, Mrs Josephine Frisbie and Augustus F Waite, all of whom have since died.
[Mankato-Its First Fifty Years, 1902]
Parents: Joseph Waite and Olive Davis
Admitted to the bar in 1836.
He came to Minnesota in 1860.
Judge of the Sixth judicial district 1870-1874
20th Legislative Session (1878)
Body: Senate
District: 14
Elected: 11/6/1877
Residence: Mankato
Term of Office: 1/8/1878 to 1/6/1879
Counties Represented: Blue Earth
Occupation: Lawyer
Party: Democratic
Party Notes: He was listed as a Democrat on the list of members posted after the 1877 election. ("The Next Legislature." St. Paul Pioneer Press, November 10, 1877)
Committees: Insane Asylum, Judiciary, Library, Roads and Bridges
Granted a US Patent for a Match-Safe on Nov 27, 1883.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Born February 28th, 1813 in Windham County, Vermont and when he was three years of age, his parents moved to Jamestown, New York, where his father, Joseph Waite, was a prominent attorney for many years. At the age of twenty years, Franklin H began the study of law in his father's office, and three years later was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the State. Subsequently he held the office of postmaster at Jamestown. He was Democratic candidate for Congress in a district hopelessly against him and was only beaten by a few votes.
In June 1844, he married Adeline Holman. In 1846 he was appointed Judge of the Common Pleas and held the position until abolished by the Legislature. In 1852 he moved to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and thence in the spring of 1860 to Mankato, where he first formed a co-partnership with Cramer Burt and was afterwards associated at different times with General Tourtellotte, Morton S Wilkinson, E P Freeman and J E Porter.
After the Sioux war he was attorney for a large number of claimants for damages from Indian depredations. In 1864 he was village attorney under the first corporate organization of Mankato, and exercised an important influence in shaping and directing our local government. He rendered an invaluable service to our city in the able and fearless manner in which he prosecuted number of suits to recover streets, parks, levees and other public grounds from private greed.
In 1867 and again in 1877, he was elected State Senator and served with distinction. In 1869 at the solicitation of hundreds of voters irrespective of party, he became a candidate for Judge of the Sixth Judicial District, and was elected by a big majority. Resigning his position in 1874, he ran for Congress on the Democratic ticket against Mark H Dunnell, the Republican nominee, and was only beaten by a small majority though the district was overwhelming Republican. He died March 4th, 1884, leaving him surviving his wife and two children, Mrs Josephine Frisbie and Augustus F Waite, all of whom have since died.
[Mankato-Its First Fifty Years, 1902]
Admitted to the bar in 1836.
He came to Minnesota in 1860.
Judge of the Sixth judicial district 1870-1874
20th Legislative Session (1878)
Body: Senate
District: 14
Elected: 11/6/1877
Residence: Mankato
Term of Office: 1/8/1878 to 1/6/1879
Counties Represented: Blue Earth
Occupation: Lawyer
Party: Democratic
Party Notes: He was listed as a Democrat on the list of members posted after the 1877 election. ("The Next Legislature." St. Paul Pioneer Press, November 10, 1877)
Committees: Insane Asylum, Judiciary, Library, Roads and Bridges
Granted a US Patent for a Match-Safe on Nov 27, 1883.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Born February 28th, 1813 in Windham County, Vermont and when he was three years of age, his parents moved to Jamestown, New York, where his father, Joseph Waite, was a prominent attorney for many years. At the age of twenty years, Franklin H began the study of law in his father's office, and three years later was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the State. Subsequently he held the office of postmaster at Jamestown. He was Democratic candidate for Congress in a district hopelessly against him and was only beaten by a few votes.
In June 1844, he married Adeline Holman. In 1846 he was appointed Judge of the Common Pleas and held the position until abolished by the Legislature. In 1852 he moved to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and thence in the spring of 1860 to Mankato, where he first formed a co-partnership with Cramer Burt and was afterwards associated at different times with General Tourtellotte, Morton S Wilkinson, E P Freeman and J E Porter.
After the Sioux war he was attorney for a large number of claimants for damages from Indian depredations. In 1864 he was village attorney under the first corporate organization of Mankato, and exercised an important influence in shaping and directing our local government. He rendered an invaluable service to our city in the able and fearless manner in which he prosecuted number of suits to recover streets, parks, levees and other public grounds from private greed.
In 1867 and again in 1877, he was elected State Senator and served with distinction. In 1869 at the solicitation of hundreds of voters irrespective of party, he became a candidate for Judge of the Sixth Judicial District, and was elected by a big majority. Resigning his position in 1874, he ran for Congress on the Democratic ticket against Mark H Dunnell, the Republican nominee, and was only beaten by a small majority though the district was overwhelming Republican. He died March 4th, 1884, leaving him surviving his wife and two children, Mrs Josephine Frisbie and Augustus F Waite, all of whom have since died.
[Mankato-Its First Fifty Years, 1902]
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