Bristol, Warren
lawyer, jurist, legislator, state senator, was born March 19, 1823, in Stafford, N. Y. He held successively the offices of district attorney and judge of probate, in Red Wing county, Minn.; and was president of the first republican state convention of Minnesota, in 1855, which was held at St. Paul, and at which the republican party was first organized in that state. He was a delegate to the republican national convention of 1864; was a representative in the state legislature in 1865; and was a state senator from 1866 to 1870. In 1872 he was appointed, by President Grant, associate justice of the supreme court of New Mexico, and was re-appointed by President Grant in 1876 and by President Hayes in 1880.