Eleazer Wakeley was a Nebraska

Nebraska

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 and Wisconsin

Wisconsin

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 politician and jurist.

Born in Homer, New York

Homer (town), New York

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, Wakeley and his family moved first to Pennsylvania and then to Elyria, Ohio

Elyria, Ohio

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, where he studied the law and was admitted to the Ohio bar. His father was Solmous Wakeley

Solmous Wakeley

Solmous 'Solomon' Wakeley was a pioneer Wisconsin legislator.Born in New Milford, Connecticut, Wakeley settled in Homer, New New York, then Pennsylvania, Ohio, and then Whitewater, Wisconsin. He served in the first Wisconsin Constitutional Convention of 1846. One of his sons was Judge Eleazer...

, who served in the Wisconsin Legislature

Wisconsin Legislature

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. Wakeley moved to Wisconsin Territory

Wisconsin Territory

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 to Whitewater, Wisconsin

Whitewater, Wisconsin

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, where he served in the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature. In 1857, Wakeley was appointed to the Nebraska Territorial Supreme Court serving until 1861. He returned to Wisconsin to practice law and ran for the Wisconsin Attorney General, but lost.

Wakeley served in the Wisconsin State Senate

Wisconsin State Senate

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 1851–1855 and the Wisconsin State Assembly

Wisconsin State Assembly

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 1866–1867.

In 1867, Wakeley and his family moved to Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska, United States, and is the county seat of Douglas County. It is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 20 miles north of the mouth of the Platte River...

. There he practiced law and served in the 1877 Nebraska Constitutional Convention. Wakeley was appointed Nebraska district court judge and was the first president of the Nebraska State Bar Association.

After he died in Omaha on November 21, 1912, he was buried at the Prospect Hill Cemetery.

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