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ADDE N D U M public speaker, he took an active part in local Republican politics. BTW may have heard him speak at a celebration of the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment in Charleston by the black people of Kanawha County in the spring of 1870. (Charleston West Virginia Journal, May 18, 1870, 2.) In 1868-70 he was proseeuting attorney for Fayette and Boone counties, and assistant prosecutor for Kanawha County. In 1870-7z he was prosecuting attorney for Kanawha County. In the election of 187a Freer was a member of the Kanawha County Republiean Executive Committee. His work for the Grant ticket won him appointment in 187z as U.S. consul in Nicaragua for four years. Returning to Charleston, he formed a partnership with H. C. McWhorter, later a state supreme court justice, and forged ahead as a criminal lawyer. He was counsel for Rufus Estep and John Dawson, accused of murder, who were taken from jail and lynched in 1876 after Freer pleaded unsuccessfully for a change of venue. Moving to Harrisville in 188~, he held a succession of ounces there, legislator, county prosecutor, circuit judge, congressman, state attorney general, and finally, from egos to 19~3, postmaster of Harrisville. A brigadier general in the National Guard, a leader in the G.A.R., and an intense Republiean, he took part in every campaign for forty years. Ex-Governor William A. MaeCorkle later recalled of BTW's study under Romeo Freer: ''Freer was a Republiean lawyer at Charleston, and Washington did not study law in his once as was currently reported. Freer loaned him books and examined him on the law which he had studied during the week at his home.'' (MacCorkle, Recollections of Fifty Years, 569-70.) 589