506), appealing up to the Supreme Court of the United States, where Chief Justice Roger Taney wrote the unanimous opinion.

[7] In April 1857, Sharpstein became Postmaster of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and then was a delegate to the 1860 Democratic National Convention.

[10] In January 1874, Governor Newton Booth appointed Sharpstein a judge of the Twelfth District Court in California, replacing Elisha W.

[14] In July 1878, Sharpstein was nominated by the Workingmen's Party and elected as a member of the Constitutional Convention from the First Congressional District.

[15][16] In October 1879, when adoption of a new constitution required elections for all Supreme Court seats, Sharpstein was nominated by Democratic and Workingmen's parties and won a position as associate justice.

473 (1885), holding the City of San Francisco excluding a Chinese child from public school violated the California Constitution.