Humphrey, Herman L
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born March 14, 1830, in Candor, N. Y. He received his education in the public schools and at the academy of Cortland, N. Y. In 1854 he was admitted to the bar, and the following year was made district attorney of St. Croix county, Wis. In 1860 he was appointed county judge, and the following year was elected to that position for a term of four years. In 1861 he was elected a member of the Wisconsin state senate; and in 1865 was elected mayor of the city of Hudson, Wis.
In 1866 he was elected circuit judge of the eighth judicial circuit of Wisconsin for six years, and received the re-election in 1872. In 1876 he was elected a member of the forty-fifth congress, receiving the re-election to the forty-sixth and fortyseventh congresses. While a member of the United States congress he took an active part in the deliberations of that body, notably on the Geneva award, on which question he made a brilliant speech in the house of representatives on May 10, 1882.