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Augustus L. Rhodes (born Oneida County New York 1821; died October 23 1918) was the 10th Chief Justice of California.Educated at Hamilton College Rhodes studied law and then moved to Bloomfield Indiana being admitted to the bar there in 1846. He served one term as the prosecuting attorney for the circuit court (1849) and departed for California in 1854. Settling in San Jose he became district attorney in 1859 and then State Senator in 1860.