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Excerpt from Courts and Lawyers of Pennsylvania, Vol. 4: A History, 1623-1923 He prepared for the profession of law, was admitted to the Allegheny county bar, March 29, 1873, and began practice in Pittsburgh. A Repub lican in politics, he was elected to the State Legislature in 1877, 1878, and 1879, then continued in successful practice until 1896, when he was elected judge of the Court of Common Pleas N O. 2, of Allegheny county, being reelected in 1906. He was made President Judge of the Court Of Com mon Pleas no. 2, of Allegheny county, November 5, 1900, and later, upon the consolidation of the Common Pleas courts, he became President Judge of the reorganized Common Pleas Court, serving until January, 1915. In November, 1914, Judge Frazer was elected a justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania for the term of 1914-1936. Justice Frazer is a United Presbyterian. His clubs are the Duquesne, Pittsburgh Golf, and Pittsburgh Country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.