Alfred Bosworth | |
Office: | Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court |
Term Start: | November 1854 |
Term End: | June 10, 1862 |
Predecessor: | Levi Haile |
Successor: | J. Russell Bullock |
Office2: | Member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives |
Term Start2: | 1839 |
Term End2: | 1854 |
Birth Place: | Warren, Rhode Island, U.S. |
Death Place: | Warren, Rhode Island, U.S. |
Party: | Whig |
Alma Mater: | Brown University |
Profession: | Judge |
Alfred Bosworth (1812–June 10, 1862) was a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from November 1854 until his death on June 10, 1862.[1]
Born at Warren, Rhode Island in 1812,[2] Bosworth graduated from Brown University in 1835,[2] [3] and studied law with Judge Levi Haile.[2] Bosworth served in the Rhode Island House of Representatives from 1839 to 1854, including three terms as Speaker.[3] Bosworth was a member of the Whig Party.[4] Upon the death of Judge Haile in 1854, Bosworth was elected to succeed him as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, which office he continued to hold until his death in 1862.[2] [3] He also served as a Trustee of Brown University.[3] Bosworth was of counsel for Rhode Island in suits growing out of the boundary question between Rhode Island and Massachusetts.[2] He died at his home in Warren, Rhode Island.[3]