Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Rhode Island's At-large district
In office March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1825
Preceded by
Nathaniel Hazard
Succeeded by
Dutee Jerauld Pearce
36th Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court
In office March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1847
Preceded by
Samuel Eddy
Succeeded by
Richard W. Green
Personal details
Born
September 20, 1790 Tiverton, Rhode Island
Died
July 26, 1847 (aged 57) Tiverton, Rhode Island
Political party
Democratic-Republican, Adams-Clay Republican
Alma mater
Brown University, 1813
Occupation
Lawyer, congressman, chief justice
Job Durfee (September 20, 1790 – July 26, 1847) was a politician and jurist from Rhode Island. Born at Tiverton, he graduated from Brown University in 1813 and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Tiverton. He was a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives from 1816 to 1820, and was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress and was reelected as an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, serving from March 4, 1821 to March 3, 1825. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1824 to the Nineteenth Congress and for election in 1828 to the Twenty-first Congress; he was again a member of the State house of representatives from 1826 to 1829, serving as speaker from 1827 to 1829. He declined to be a candidate for reelection and resumed the practice of law; in May 1833 he was elected associate justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.[1] He was chief justice from June 1835 until his death in Tiverton in 1847.[1] As chief justice, he presided over the trial of the last person executed in Rhode Island, John Gordon. Durfee's interment was in the family burying ground at Quaker Neck, near Tiverton.
Durfee was the author of What Cheer, a poem in nine cantos; of an oration, The Influences of Scientific Discovery and Invention on Social and Political Progress, or Roger Williams in Exile (1843), under the pseudonym "Theaptes;" and of a philosophical work, entitled The Panidea (1846).
^ abManual - the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1891), p. 208-13.
JobDurfee (September 20, 1790 – July 26, 1847) was a politician and jurist from Rhode Island. Born at Tiverton, he graduated from Brown University in...
but his career was destroyed and he received few job offers. Durfee and Arbuckle divorced in 1925. Durfee in her later years said Arbuckle was "the most...
Justice Durfee may refer to: JobDurfee (1790–1847), associate justice and chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court Thomas Durfee (1826–1901), associate...
– 1827 Samuel Eddy, 1827 – 1835 JobDurfee, 1835 – 1843 In 1843, the name was changed to the Supreme Court: JobDurfee, 1843 – 1848 Richard W. Green, 1848...
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Tiverton, Rhode Island, to JobDurfee and Judith (Borden) Durfee, his father also served on the state supreme court. Durfee "inherited a judicial mind...
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1863 Thomas Durfee May 1863 May 1864 Also served as Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from 1875 to 1891; son of JobDurfee Benjamin F. Thurston...
who included Justice JobDurfee, were involved in all three trials as both trial judges and the court of final appeal. Durfee "told the jurors to give...
representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket. ▌At-large. JobDurfee (DR-A) ▌At-large. Samuel Eddy (DR-A) ▌1. Joel R. Poinsett (DR-J) ▌2. James...
March 4, 1819 – December 17, 1820 Preceded by James B. Mason Succeeded by JobDurfee Personal details Born 1776 (1776) Newport, Rhode Island Died December...
Thomas A. Doyle (1827–1886) – Mayor of Providence for eighteen years JobDurfee (1790–1847) – Congressman Elisha Dyer Jr. (1839–1906) – 45th Governor...
August 6, 1908, Arbuckle married Minta Durfee (1889–1975), the daughter of Charles Warren Durfee and Flora Adkins. Durfee starred in many early comedy films...
Retired. JobDurfee Democratic-Republican March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1825 At-large Elected in 1820. Lost re-election to Pearce. Nathan B. Durfee Know-nothing...
representatives were elected statewide on a general ticket. ▌At-large. JobDurfee (DR) ▌At-large. Samuel Eddy (DR) ▌1. Joel R. Poinsett (DR) ▌2. William...
Society. Among his classmates was the future Rhode Island Chief Justice JobDurfee. In 1813, Angell joined Tapping Reeve and James Gould's Litchfield Law...
(DR) DR majority DR majority James DeWolf (DR) Nehemiah R. Knight (DR) JobDurfee (DR) F majority 1822 DR majority 36DR, 36F F majority 1823 DR majority...
Tristam Burges (Anti-Jacksonian) 35.6% Samuel Eddy (Jacksonian) 10.8% JobDurfee (Jacksonian) 9.8% Elisha R. Potter 4.5% John D'Wolf 1.8% Tristam Burges...
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