New York Republican Party, 1856. Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1872-1882. Senior State Courts Francis R. E. Cornell, Union College 1840. Attorney General of Minnesota, 1868-1874. Justice, Supreme Court of Minnesota, 1875-1881. George Franklin Danforth, Union College, 1838. Justice, New York Court of Appeals, 1879-1889. Frank H. Hiscock, Cornell University, 1871. Justice, New York Supreme Court, 1896-1906. Justice New York Court of Appeals, 1906-1926. Chief Judge of New York, 1916-1926. Chairman of the Board, Cornell University, 1917-1939. Levi Hubbell, Union College, 1825. Chief Justice of Wisconsin, 1853-1856. Ward E. Hunt, Union College, 1828. Chief Justice, New York Court of Appeals, 1865-1872. Charles B. Lawrence, Union College, 1840. Chief Justice of Illinois, 1864-1873. Rufus Wheeler Peckham, Union College, 1826. Justice, Supreme Court of New York, 1859-1870. Justice, New York Court of Appeals, 1870-1873. Clarence John Shearn, Cornell University, 1886. Justice, New York Appellate Division, 1916-1919. He had been the 1908 nominee of the Independence League for Governor of New York. Non-Elective Politics Augustus Schell, Union College, 1830. Leader in Democratic Party politics. Chairman, New York State Democratic Party, 1853-1856. Chairman, Democratic Party National Committee, 1860 and 1872-1876. Succeeded "Boss" Tweed as head of Tammany Hall in 1872 after ousting Tweed over the "Tweed Ring" Scandals. Ran for Governor of New York, 1852. Ran for Mayor of New York City, 1878. Collector of the Port of New York, 1857-1861. Principal associate of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt as he built his railroad empire. Armed Forces Canada Douglas Gordon Cunningham, Brigadier General (CAN), Appointed CBE, Recipient of DSO, ED and QC; University of Toronto, 1930. Andrew George Latta McNaughton, Lieutenant General (CAN), Recipient of PC, CH, CB, CMG, DSO, CD; McGill University, 1905. Chief of the General Staff, 1929–1935; Minister of National Defence 1944-1945 (resigned); First Canadian Ambassador to the UN, 1950. Wounded at Ypres 1915. Inventor of the "box barrage" artillery firing system, 1918 & the Cathode-ray direction finder (the forerunner to radar), 1926. Christopher Vokes, Major General (CAN); McGill University, 1926. United States Edward Stuyvesant Bragg, Brigadier General (U.S.); Hobart College, 1844. See American Politics and Law: Congress Edward Peck Curtis, Williams College, 1914. Major General, U. S. Army Air Force, World War II. Chief of Staff, Strategic Air Force in Europe. Hasbrouck Davis, Williams College, 1842. Brigadier General, Union Army. Henry Martyn Hoyt, Williams College, 1849. Brigadier General, Union Army. Joseph Lovell, Williams, 1841. General, Confederate States Army. Ranald S. Mackenzie,