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1911
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Matison Greenleaf Colson, LL.B.
"Judge"
Somerset, Kentucky
President Henry Clay Law Society.
"Judge" came to us first from the pine-clad mountains of old Pulaski, and then from the Halls of the Kentucky Legislature. Neither place seems to have seriously impaired his ability to wax eloquent on most any subject, from the beauty of the Kentucky statutes to the whereabouts of Judge Chalkley's pencil, and the virile, forcible language which he has been known to use concerning both of these subjects stamps him as a coming leader in the ranks of the G. O. P'.
"The string of his tongue was loosed and he spake plain.''
-The Kentuckian, 1911
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Matison Greenleaf Colson (May 24, 1878 - April 18, 1953) was born in Pulaski County, Kentucky to William Tinsley Colson and Elizabeth Jane Warren. Colson was admitted to the bar in 1904. He was a police judge in Pulaski County for four years and taught in public schools there for fourteen years. Colson served as a representative for House District 68 in the Kentucky General Assembly during the 1910 term. He received an LL.B. from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 1911. Colson then practiced law in Pineville, Kentucky where he also served as county attorney, circuit court clerk, and clerk of the quarterly court. He married twice--his wives were Evelyn Littrell (m. 1899, w. 1924) and Laura Bell Barnard (m. 1927).
