May's Early Life and Education
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, May entered Amherst College at age 14, then transferred to Yale University, where he graduated in 1838. After teaching school and practicing law in Norwich, Connecticut, he moved in 1843 to Angola, Indiana, a newly-founded town in Steuben County with a reputation for anti-slavery sympathies. He was the county's prosecuting attorney for two years (1847–1848). A Democrat, May was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives in 1849 and in 1850 as the joint representative for Steuben and DeKalb counties. Under the law adopted for calling the Constitutional Convention of 1850, May's election to the legislature in 1850 automatically made him a delegate to the convention.
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