Edwin O. Perrin

In 1857, he accompanied Robert J. Walker, who had been appointed Governor of the Kansas Territory, but opposing the Lecompton Constitution returned by the end of the year.

In 1861, he was sent by U.S. Secretary of War Simon Cameron on a secret mission to the New Mexico Territory and remained with the command of Kit Carson until 1862.

President Andrew Johnson nominated him for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Utah Territory, but the U.S. Senate rejected the appointment.

In 1865, he was the Democratic candidate for Clerk of the New York Court of Appeals, but was defeated by Republican Patrick H. Jones.

He was the last statewide elected Clerk, and remained in office by appointment after the re-organization of the Court in 1870 until his death.