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Samuel Hamilton Buskirk
Samuel Hamilton Buskirk (born New Albany, Indiana, January 19, 1820; died Indianapolis, Indiana, April 3, 1879) was a lawyer, politician, and justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.
Buskirk graduated from Indiana University in Bloomington in 1841. After serving as Monroe County recorder (1844-5), he began practicing law in 1845. He was the Monroe County prosecuting attorney in 1851. Buskirk served five terms in the Indiana House of Representatives and was briefly Speaker of the House in 1863. He was appointed a director of the Indiana State Prison in 1859. He was elected to the Supreme Court of Indiana in 1870 for a term lasting from January 3, 1871 to January 1, 1877.〔http://www.in.gov/library/exhibits/lawyers/aids/b1ob3.html Brief bio on Indiana State Library website〕 During his time on the Supreme Court he wrote ''Buskirk's Practice'' (1876), a manual of Supreme Court practice.〔(Buskirk bio )〕
Buskirk wrote the opinion in the 1874 case ''Cory v. Carter'', which upheld the principle of separate but equal in Indiana schools.〔''The Green Bag: An Entertaining Magazine for Lawyers'', Volume 4 (1892), p. 264〕 It was one of the precedents cited in the United States Supreme Court's 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision.
Samuel Buskirk's younger brother George Abraham Buskirk (1829–1874) was also a lawyer; his brother helped him study law. He served as a district judge and as a state representative in Indiana, and was also elected Speaker of the House, in 1869.〔http://genealogytrails.com/ind/monroe/Biographies/BMonroeBiographies.htm Monroe County biographies, "George A. Buskirk"〕 Another younger brother, Edward C. Buskirk (1833-1900〔''The Post Almanac, Weather Forecasts, and Book of Facts for the Office, Home, and Farm 1901'', Post Company, Washington, D.C.: 1901, p. 122〕), was also a lawyer and a Marion County criminal judge. Edward was also the (unsuccessful) Democratic candidate for mayor in Indianapolis in 1879.〔''Greater Indianapolis'', Volume 1, Jacob Piatt Dunn, Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1910, p. 165〕
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