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Hamilton Rowan Gamble (November 29, 1798 – January 31, 1864) was an American jurist and politician who served as the Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court at the time of the Dred Scott case in 1852.
Gamble considered Curtis’s leadership dictatorial, especially after the commander issued General Order No. 30 in 1863, which allowed military courts to issue death sentences to those suspected of traitorous activities.
Gamble entered politics as the secretary of state, a position he held from 1824 to 1826. He also was elected to a term in the Missouri legislature in 1846, and served as the presiding judge on the Missouri State Supreme Court from 1851 to 1854.
Died: January 31, 1864 (age 65) Missouri Hometown: St. Louis. Regions of Missouri: Central, St. Louis. Category: Politicians. On November 29, 1798, Hamilton Rowan Gamble was born in Winchester, Virginia. He was the seventh and youngest child born to Joseph and Anne Hamilton Gamble.
Hamilton R. Gamble was a lawyer, secretary of state of Missouri (1824), and provisional governor of Missouri during the Civil War (1861-1864). He married Caroline J. Coalter, sister of Mrs. Edward Bates, in 1827. He was a member of the Whig party, and in 1851 he was elected to the Missouri Supreme Court. He resigned in 1855 because of ill health.
Hamilton Rowan Gamble. Born in Winchester, Virginia on November 29, 1798, Hamilton Gamble studied law before moving to St. Louis, Missouri in 1818. He served in various positions, including deputy circuit court clerk, secretary of state and state legislator, and was elected to the Missouri Supreme Court in 1851, where he became presiding judge.
Hamilton Rowan Gamble was an American jurist and politician who served as the Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court at the time of the Dred Scott case in 1852. Although his colleagues voted to overturn the 28-year precedent in Missouri of "once free always free," Gamble wrote a dissenting opinion.
