Dupuy, George Alexander (1858-1943)

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George A. Dupuy to Jane Addams, [December 2, 1905]

Henry Crittenden Morris to Chicago Peace Society-- Executive Committee, October 11, 1921

List of Members of the Chicago Peace Society, November 1921

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Birth Date

1858-03-04

Death Date

1943-07-03

Birthplace

St. Clair County, IL

Biographical Text

George A. Dupuy attended Wesleyan University at Bloomington, where he studied law. He then lived in Texas for five years, where he was admitted to the bar. In 1881, Dupuy was admitted to the bar in Illinois. In 1882 he graduated from Union College of Law and opened his own law practice. From 1892 to 1893 and 1897 to 1898 he was Assistant Corporation Counsel of Chicago. In 1904 Dupuy was elected judge of the Superior Court of Cook County, and he served in this position until 1910; in his last year, he was also Chief Justice of the court. Dupuy then remained a lawyer in the sixth district of the Illinois courts, where he was chairman of the Committee on Schedule and a member of the Committees on Judicial Department, and Initiative, Referendum, and Recall. He was also a member of the State Historical Society, the Union League Club, chairman of the Legal Advisory Board for district 59 from 1917 to 1918, and a Freemason.

Dupuy married Mary Lenore Van Pelt, in 1883. They had four daughters together. Dupuy died in 1943.

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Judge

Lawyer

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Picture: Chicago Tribune, May 10, 1904, p. 3.

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Hajo, Cathy Moran

Lichon, Sara Catherine

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Public domain

Gender

Male

First appears

1905

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Blue Book of the State of Illinois, 1921, p. 222

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Washington, Deaths, 1883-1960

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“Dupuy, George Alexander (1858-1943),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed July 26, 2024, http://mail.digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/1627.