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Carey, Joseph Maull

lawyer, legislator, and business man, was born July 19, 1845, in Milton, Del. He attended the Union college of Schenectady, N. Y.; and in 1867 graduated from the law department of the university of Pennsylvania. In 1869 he was appointed by President Grant as United States district attorney for the territory of Wyoming; and in 1872 he became associate justice of the supreme court of Wyoming, which position he filled with distinction for four years. In 1876 he was appointed a member of the United States centennial commission. Judge Carey was among the first to become interested in the great industry of cattle-raising on the plains; and for many years was president of the Wyoming Stockgrowers association. He was mayor of Cheyenne during 1880-82; and was instrumental in having Wyoming admitted to the union as a state. He was a member of the forty-ninth, fiftieth, and fifty-first congresses; and in 1891 was elected to the United States senate, serving with distinction in that body.