Background
Root, Jesse L. was born on November 27, 1860 in Tazewell Company, Illinois, United States. Son of Charles M. and Miranda B. (Burnidge) Root.
Root, Jesse L. was born on November 27, 1860 in Tazewell Company, Illinois, United States. Son of Charles M. and Miranda B. (Burnidge) Root.
Public schools and business college. Studied law in office of Honorary Samuel M. Chapman, of Plattsmouth, Nebraska. Admitted to bar, 1889.
Practiced at Plattsmouth. Company attorney public prosecutor Cass Company, Nebraska, 1899-1905. Member Nebraska Senate, 1906-1907.
Commissioner, January-December, 1908, The American Association Foreign Justice, 1908-1911, Supreme Court of the Nebraska.
Now in practice at Omaha. Assistant solicitor for Nebraska, C.,B.&Q. Railroad Company.
Member Nebraska
Married Evelyn A. Wise, June 8, 1888.