Records of William Peck on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for William Peck and the Peck Family History

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Some Famous People called William Peck

William Virgil Peck

William V. Peck (April 17, 1804 – December 30, 1877) was a Republican politician in the U.S. State of Ohio who was an Ohio Supreme Court Judge 1859–1864.

Born April 17, 1804 in Canandaigua, New York, William V. Peck grew up in Connecticut, where he studied law at Litchfield Law School. After graduating in 1826, Peck moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he clerked in the law office of Bellamy Storer. He moved to Scioto County, Ohio in 1827, and had a law practice there until 1847. In 1844, the Whig Ohio General Assembly elected him a Common Pleas Judge. With the new Constitution in 1851, the public elected him and re-elected him to the same seat in 1856.

In 1858, as a Republican, Peck defeated incumbent Democrat Thomas Welles Bartley as Judge on the Ohio Supreme Court. He declined re-nomination for the 1863 election. He returned to Portsmouth in 1864, and did not resume practice of law.

Peck died December 30, 1877. He is buried at Green Lawn Cemetery in Portsmouth.

Peck married Mary Ann Cook on July 8, 1830. They had fourteen children.

Source: William Virgil Peck, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

William Ware Peck

William Ware Peck (February 17, 1821 – July 18, 1897) was an American jurist who served as a Justice of the Territorial Wyoming Supreme Court from December 14, 1877 to January 11, 1882.

Born in Burlington, Vermont, he graduated from the University of Vermont in 1841, and received an LL.B. from Harvard University in 1844.

In 1977, Peck was appointed associate justice for the Wyoming Supreme Court by President Rutherford B. Hayes, serving in that capacity from December 14, 1877 to January 11, 1882. Afterwards, "Peck practiced law first in Cheyenne and then in New York City", where he later died.

Source: William Ware Peck, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

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