In 1852, McCulloch moved to Peoria, Illinois and opened a classical school in the basement of First Methodist Church. In 1854, he read law at the partnership of Manning & Merriam. In fall 1855, he was elected as a school commissioner for Peoria County, Illinois, a post he would hold for six years.
McCulloch was admitted to the bar on September 2, 1858. In 1865, he was appointed to fill a vacancy as a prosecutor. Building on his prominence as a prosecutor, McCulloch ran successfully for circuit judge, and was re-elected in 1879. Shortly after he was re-elected, he was appointed to the Illinois Appellate Court, a post he held for six years. In 1880, he served as the second president of the Illinois State Bar Association. In 1883, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the Supreme Court of Illinois, losing to Alfred M. Craig.
Eliot Callender, "Memorial to Judge David McCulloch," Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society for the Year 1908
David McCulloch, Early Days of Peoria and Chicago (1904)
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