1961: After rising to the rank of lieutenant in the LAPD, the highest-ranking African American in the department at the time, Bradley retires to practice law.
He resigned from the House in protest and retired to New York to practice law and to write.
Mr. Wiggins was elected to the House in 1967 from a district in Southern California and served until 1978 when he retired to resume practicing law.
In 1847, he retired to Covington, Kentucky, practicing law until his death in 1854.
Having retired to his law practice in Indianapolis, Harrison, at 62, married his deceased wife's niece and caretaker, Mary Lord Dimmick; they had one daughter.
When the Democratic majority in the Ohio legislature denied him a fourth senatorial term, Wade retired to his Ohio law practice in 1869.
After 60 years of practice, she retired to her ranch near Indio, California, in the Coachella Valley, where she became a pioneer in date farming.
Strong was a former justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania who retired to take up a private practice in Philadelphia.
After the 1915 season, he retired from baseball to practice law, but when the United States entered the war, he enlisted in the Army and was leading a group trying to rescue the "Lost Battalion" when he was killed by enemy machine-gun fire on Oct. 5, 1918.
But a final comedy, The Man of Reason (1776), was a failure, and Kelly, having been called to the bar in 1774, retired from the theatre to practice law.
