One of my Continuing Legal Education programs is an overview of the early legal history of Minnesota, mostly covering the territorial years. The course materials for that program are available at this link (PDF) and also as a Kindle book.

This page will contain links to some additional source materials in Minnesota legal history. The materials on this page are by no means exhaustive. In fact, you'll find a much better collection at The Minnesota Legal History Project, a website operated by retired Minneapolis attorney Douglas A. Hedin.

• Formation of Minnesota Territory
  • Speech of Henry Hastings Sibley
• Minnesota Supreme Court
  • Russel O. Gunderson, History of the Minnesota Supreme Court (1937)
  • Chief Justices of the Territorial Supreme Court
    • Aaron Goodrich (1849-1851)
    • Jerome Fuller (1851-1852)
      • Biography at Wikipedia
      • Biography at State Law Library
    • Henry Z. Hayner (1851-1852)
    • William H. Welch (1853-1858)
  • Associate Justices of the Territorial Supreme Court
    • David Cooper (1849-1853)
    • Bradley B. Meeker (1849-1853)
    • Andrew G. Chatfield (1853-1857)
    • Moses Sherburne (1853-1857)
    • Rensselaer R. Nelson (1857-1858)
    • Charles Eugene Flandrau (1857-1858)
• BIOGRAPHIES OF EARLY LEGAL FIGURES
  • Henry Hastings Sibley
  • Chief Justice James Gilfillan
  • Chief Justice James Gilfillan
  • Alexander Ramsey

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