Legal Career
He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1876, when he commenced practice in Media. Later he moved to Shoshone County, in northern Idaho in 1883 and continued the practice of law in Wallace. Heyburn was a member of the convention that framed the constitution of the State of Idaho in 1889.
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