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Randall J. Le Boeuf '92 Appointed by Governor Hughes.

Randall James Le Boeuf, LL.B. '92, of Albany, was appointed last week by Governor Hughes to be a justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York. He was named to fill the vacancy in the Third District (Columbia, Rensselaer, Sullivan, Ulster, Albany, Greene and Schoharie counties) caused by the death of Justice George H. Fitts, of Albany. His appointment is for a term ending January 1, 1911. Next November the unexpired term will be filled by election.

Mr. Le Boeuf was born at Cohoes, N. Y., in 1870. He entered the Cornell law school in the fall of 1889, and graduated in 1892, taking high rank as a student. He won the second thesis prize for a graduation thesis on "The rights and remedies of abutting owners in streets in the city of New York over which elevated railroads have been constructed." He also won the second prize for excellence in debate.

After his admission to the bar in 1892 Mr. Le Boeuf engaged in general practice with Sackett & Bennett, and later with Carter, Hughes, Kellogg, in New York city. Of this latter firm Charles E. Hughes, now Governor, and formerly one of Mr. LeBoeuf's teachers in the law school, was a member. In 1895 Mr. Le Boeuf removed to Albany and formed the law firm of Burlingame & Le Boeuf. he was identified with the organization of the Albany, Troy, Syracuse & Schenectady Trust Company and has been counsel and director for the Albany trust Company and counsel for the Albany & Hudson Railroad Company. In 1896 he married Miss Katharine Washburn of Albany, and has one son, Randall J., jr. Mr. Le Boeuf is a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity.

Other Cornellians on the bench of the State Supreme Court are John Ford '90, New York city; P. C. J. DeAngeles '71, Utica; Albert H. Sewell '71, Walter; George A. Benton '71, Spencerport; Cuthbert W. Pound '87, Lockport, and Louis W. Marcus '89, Buffalo.

~Cornell Alumni News, Ithaca, NY, 5 Jan 1910, pg. 160

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