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Slack, James Richard

educator, soldier, legislator, jurist, was born Sept. 28, 1818, in Bucks county, Pa. He graduated from the academy of Newton, Pa., and in 1837 moved with his parents to Delaware county, Ind. He next entered educational work, and subsequently was admitted to the bar, and practiced his profession in Huntington. During 1842-51 he filled the office of county auditor; and for two terms was a member of the Indiana state senate. In 1858 he was again elected to the state senate and served four successive terms until 1861.

He served in the civil war in the fortyseventh regiment of the Indiana volunteer infantry; was made brigadier-general in 1864; and major-general by brevet in 1866.

In 1872 he was elected judge of the twenty-eighth judicial circuit of Indiana, and served in that office until his death on July 28, 1881.