Background
Mosher was born near Latonia Springs in Kentucky on September 1, 1824. The son of Hannah Webster and her husband Stephen Mosher, Lafayette was educated in Cincinnati, Ohio at Woodward College where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1843.
Mosher was born near Latonia Springs in Kentucky on September 1, 1824. The son of Hannah Webster and her husband Stephen Mosher, Lafayette was educated in Cincinnati, Ohio at Woodward College where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1843.
He was the 23rd Associate Justice on the Supreme Court. Prior to joining the state"s highest court in 1873 he served in the State Senate. He later moved to Territory.
On May 14, 1853, he arrived in Through 1854 he was involved in a movement in Southern to create a new territory, Jackson Territory.
In 1855 he was appointed as a registrar for the Southern District of the land office. Then on July 1, 1856 Mosher married the daughter of former governor Joseph Lane, Winnifred, with whom he would have eight children.
Mosher served as a Republican from Douglas County. In 1873, he was appointed by Governor LaFayette Grover to the Supreme Court to replace Andrew J. Thayer who had died in office.
His term then ended the following year and Mosher left the court.
Lafayette Mosher died on May 27, 1894.