Attorney General: Judson Harmon
Judson Harmon was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, on February 3, 1846. He graduated in 1866 from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, and in 1869, graduated from the Law School of Cincinnati College, was admitted to the bar, and entered the practice of law in Cincinnati, Ohio. Harmon was elected judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1876 and of the Superior Court in 1878. He resigned his judgeship in 1887 to resume the practice of law. Harmon was appointed Attorney General of the United States by President Grover Cleveland in June 1895. He served in that office until March 1897, when he returned to his Cincinnati law practice.
Harmon received the Democratic nomination for Governor of Ohio in 1908 and became the first former cabinet official elected to a governorship. He served two terms as Ohio’s Governor, holding that office until 1913. At the conclusion of his final term, Harmon returned to Cincinnati to practice law and to teach at the law school of the University of Cincinnati. Judson Harmon died in Cincinnati, Ohio, on February 22, 1927.
Fedore Encke, a portrait and genre painter, was born in 1851 in Berlin, then the capital of the German state of Prussia. He studied in Paris and Rome, then settled in Berlin and began painting prominent Europeans. Encke often visited the United States, where he painted prominent statesmen, including Theodore Roosevelt. His portrait of Attorney General Harmon was painted in 1897. Encke died in 1926.