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Kidder, Jefferson P

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1814 in Braintree, Vt. He was state's attorney from 1842 to 1847; a member of the state senate in 1847 and 1848; and lieutenantgovernor in 1853 and 1854. He removed to Minnesota in 1857; and was elected to the legislature in 1860, 1862, and 1863.

He was appointed an associate judge of the supreme court of Dakota in 1865, and removed there; and was reappointed in 1869, and again in 1873. After holding the position ten years he resigned on being elected a delegate from Dakota to the forty-fourth congress. He was re-elected to the forty-fifth congress; and in 1883 was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of Dakota. He died Oct. 2, 1883, in St. Paul, Minn.