Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1898 — JOHN V. HADLEY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JOHN V. HADLEY.

Hon. John V. Hadley, Republioap I ominee for judge of the supreme court, */as reared in Hendricks oounty and is t citizen of Danville. He was born in 1841, and in 1861, when the war began, he was a student. in Butler University. He enlisted in the army and served throughout the war with distinction. He was taken prisoner, and has written an interesting book descriptive of his military experience. He was a member

>of the state senate in the sessions of 1869 and 1871, representing Putnam and Hendricks counties. In 1888 he was elected judge of the circuit composed of Marion and Hendricks counties. Hendricks county was soon thereafter made a separate circuit, and he is now judge of the court of that county. He has a large acquaintance throughout the state, and is popular with all classes. He has the reputation of being a fair and upright judge, and his opinions have been rarely reversed by the higher courts. His integrity as a man is unquestionable, and his fitness for the supreme court bench is cheerfully conceded by men of every shade of political belief.

JOHN V. HADLEY.