Law, John
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1796 in New London, Conn. He was elected a prosecuting attorney, and in 1823 a member of the Indiana legislature; was again elected attorney for his district,. and held that position until promoted to a judgeship, which office he held by reelections for eight years. He was appointed judge of the court of land claims, to adjudicate the claims of the old inhabitants of Indiana and Illinois, and was reappointed in 1856. In 1860 he was elected a representative from Indiana to the thirty-seventh congress. He died Oct. 7, 1873, in Evansville, Ind.