About Edwin Thomas Merrick
Lived 1808 – 1897 (aged 88–89). Edwin Thomas Merrick was an American jurist.
Edwin Thomas Merrick (July 9, 1809 – January 12, 1897) was the third Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from July 1855 to April 3, 1865.
Biography Edwin T. Merrick was born in Wilbraham, Massachusetts on July 9, 1809. He moved to Ohio, where he was admitted to the Bar of Ohio in 1833, and then in 1838 moved to Clinton, Louisiana. There, he was appointed as a district judge, and upon the resignation of Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Slidell in 1855, Merrick was elected to that office.
He died in New Orleans on January 12, 1897.
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American judge (1809–1897)
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