Albert H. Horton

Albert Howell Horton (March 12, 1837 – September 2, 1902) was chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court from December 31, 1876 to April 30, 1895.

In 1885 his name was presented to the joint session of the legislature for United States senator, and on the first ballot the vote stood 86 for John J. Ingalls and 83 for Judge Horton.

[1][2] For many years, Horton was president of the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan, for the Southwest and in June, 1889, his alma mater conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.

D. On April 30, 1895, he resigned his position on the supreme bench to resume his law practice at Topeka, as a member of the firm of Waggener, Horton & Orr.

He had traveled to Wisconsin with the hope of recovering there, but once his health turned for the worse, he asked to be taken back to Kansas to die in his home, in Topeka.