About Joseph Trotter Mills
Lived 1812 – 1897 (aged 84). Joseph Trotter Mills was an American judge and politician.
Joseph Trotter Mills (December 18, 1812 – November 22, 1897) was an American attorney, jurist, Republican politician, and Wisconsin pioneer. He served four one-year terms in the Wisconsin State Assembly, and was Wisconsin circuit court judge for the 5th circuit from 1865 through 1877.
Biography Born in 1812 in Cane Ridge, Kentucky, near Paris, Joseph Trotter Mills as a youth lived and studied with his uncle Benjamin Mills, who was a judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals. Moving west, in 1831 Mills studied at Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois.
He worked as a tutor in 1834 and 1835, teaching the children of Colonel Zachary Taylor, His son-in-law, James Sibree Anderson, was also a member of the Assembly.
Mills died at his son's home in Denver, Colorado.
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19th century American politician and judge
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Joseph Trotter Mills was born on 18 December 1812 in Cane Ridge.
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Joseph Trotter Mills died on 22 November 1897 in Denver County, Colorado.
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Joseph Trotter Mills was a judge and politician.
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