JUDICIARY

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

(1 1st St. NE. Phone, NAtional 5321-40)

CHARLES EVANS HUGHES, Chief Justice of the United States, was born at Glens Falls, N. Y., April 11, 1862; attended Colgate University 1876-78; A. B. Brown University, 1881, A. M. 1884; LL. B., Columbia University, 1884; married Antoinette Carter, December 5, 1888; admitted to New York bar 1884; prize fellowship, Columbia Law School, 1884-87; practiced law in New York 1884–91, 1893-1906; professor of law 1891-93, special lecturer 1893-95, Cornell University; special lecturer, New York Law School 1893-1900; counsel Stevens gas committee (New York Legislature), 1905; counsel Armstrong insurance committee (New York Legislature), 1905-6; special assistant to Attorney General, coal investigation, 1906; nominated for mayor of New York by Republican convention 1905, but declined; elected Governor of New York for two terms (1907-8 and 1909-10); resigned October 6, 1910, appointed Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, May 2, 1910, and assumed duties October 10, 1910; nominated for President of the United States by the Republican National Convention at Chicago June 10, 1916, and resigned from the Supreme Court on the same day; practiced law in New York, 1917-21; chairman district board of drafts appeals, New York City, 1917-18; special assistant to the Attorney General in charge of aircraft inquiry, 1918; appointed Secretary of State March 5, 1921, resigned March 5, 1925, and resumed practice in New York; United States delegate to, and chairman of, the Conference on Limitation of Armament, Washington, 1921; special ambassador to the Brazilian Centenary Celebration, Rio de Janeiro, 1922; chairman New York State Reorganization Commission, 1926; chairman United States delegation to Sixth Pan American Conference, Habana, Cuba, January-February, 1928; United States delegate Pan American Conference on Arbitration and Conciliation, Washington, D. C., 1928-29; member of Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague, 1926-30; judge of Permanent Court of International Justice 1928-30; appointed by President Hoover as Chief Justice of the United States February 3, 1930, confirmed by the Senate February 13, 1930, and took his seat February 24, 1930; president GuatemalaHonduras Arbitral Tribunal, 1932; president New York State Bar Association 1917-18, Legal Aid Society (New York) 1917-19, New York County Lawyers' Association 1919-20, American Bar Association 1924-25, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1927-29, American Society of International Law 1927-29; honorary bencher of the Middle Temple, London, 1924; fellow Brown University; honorary trustee University of Chicago; Regent, now Chancellor, of Smithsonian Institution, Washington; awarded Roosevelt Memorial Association Medal, 1928, for Development of Public and International Law; LL. D. Brown 1906, Columbia, Knox, and Lafayette 1907, Union and Colgate 1908, George Washington 1909, Williams College, Harvard, and University of Pennsylvania 1910, Yale 1915, University of Michigan 1922, Dartmouth 1923, Princeton, Amherst, and the University of the State of New York 1924, Pennsylvania Military College 1928; D. C. L. New York University 1928; doctor honoris causa, University of Brussels and University of Louvain, 1924; author Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government (Yale University lectures), 1909; The Pathway of Peace and Other Addresses, 1925; The Supreme Court of the United States (Columbia University lectures), 1927; Our Relation to the Nations of the Western Hemisphere (Princeton University lectures), 1928; Pan American Peace Plans (Yale University lectures), 1929.

JAMES CLARK MCREYNOLDS, born in Elkton, Ky., February 3, 1862; son of Dr. John O. and Ellen (Reeves) M.; B. S. Vanderbilt University, 1882; graduate of University of Virginia law department, 1884; unmarried; practiced law at Nashville, Tenn.; Assistant Attorney General of the United States, 1903-7;

thereafter removed to New York; appointed Attorney General of the United States March 5, 1913, and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States August 29, 1914; took his seat October 12, 1914.

LOUIS DEMBITZ BRANDEIS, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was born in Louisville, Ky., November 13, 1856; attended private and public schools there until 1872; then went to Europe, where he remained until 1875; attended Annen Real Schule in Dresden, Saxony, 1873-75; attended Harvard Law School_1875-78. He began the practice of law in St. Louis, Mo., 1878; removed to Boston, Mass., in 1879, and practiced there until June 1916 as a member first of the firm of Warren & Brandeis, and later of the firm of Brandeis, Dunbar & Nutter. He was nominated an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States by President Wilson on January 28, 1916, was confirmed by the Senate June 1, 1916, and took his seat June 5, 1916.

GEORGE SUTHERLAND, of Salt Lake City, was born March 25, 1862, in Buckinghamshire, England; received a common school and academic education; studied law at the University of Michigan, being admitted to practice in the supreme court of that State in March 1883, and thereafter followed the practice of law until his appointment as a member of the Supreme Court; received honorary degree of doctor of laws from Columbia University of New York, University of Michigan, and from the George Washington University; was State senator from the sixth (Utah) senatorial district in the first State legislature; was elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress; declined renomination to the Fifty-eighth; was elected to the United States Senate by the Utah Legislature for the term beginning March 4, 1905, and was reelected in 1911, his term of service expiring March 3, 1917; president, American Bar Association, 1916-17; author of Constitutional Power and World Affairs, a series of lectures delivered at Columbia University in 1918; on September 5, 1922, he was nominated by President Harding to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, immediately confirmed by the Senate, and entered upon the duties of the office October 2, 1922.

PIERCE BUTLER was born March 17, 1866, in the township of Waterford, Dakota County, Minn., attended public school until 1881, and graduated at Carleton College in 1887. He was admitted to the bar at St. Paul in 1888 and practiced law there until January 1923. He was nominated by President Harding to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States November 23, 1922, was confirmed by the Senate December 21, 1922, and took his seat January 2, 1923.

HARLAN F. STONE, of New York City, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; born in Chesterfield, N. H., on October 11, 1872, son of Frederick L. and Anne Sophia (Butler) Stone; married Agnes Harvey, of Chesterfield, N. H., September 7, 1899; has two sons, Marshall and Lauson; graduate of Amherst College, B. S., 1894, M. A., 1897, honorary LL. D., 1913; Columbia Law School graduate, receiving LL. B., 1898; honorary LL. D., 1925; honorary LL. D., Yale University, 1924; Williams College, 1925; George Washington University, 1927; Harvard University, 1931; Dartmouth College, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, 1934; honorary D. C. L., Syracuse University, 1928; member International Academy of Comparative Law since 1923; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1933; trustee of Amherst College and of Folger Shakespeare Library, 1933; admitted to New York bar 1898; became member of law firm of Wilmer & Canfield and later of its successor, Satterlee, Canfield & Stone; while practicing law with that firm lectured on law in Columbia Law School, 1899-1902, 1910-23; adjunct professor of law, 1903; severed his university connection and devoted himself exclusively to practice, 1905-10; Kent professor of law and dean of Columbia Law School, 1910-23; resigned 1923 and became member of law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City; appointed Attorney General of the United States, April 7, 1924; nominated Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States by President Coolidge January 5, 1925; confirmed by the Senate February 5, 1925, and entered upon the duties of that office on March 2, 1925.

OWEN J. ROBERTS, of West Vincent Township, Chester County, Pa., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 2, 1875; graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, A. B., 1895; LL. B., 1898; married Elizabeth Caldwell Rogers, June 15, 1904; one child, Elizabeth Rogers Roberts; began practice at Philadelphia in 1898, and continuously practiced there until June 1930; nominated Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States by President Hoover May 9, 1930; confirmed by the Senate May 20, 1930, and entered upon the duties of that office June 2, 1930.

BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; born in New York City, May 24, 1870; A. B. Columbia University, 1889; A. M. 1890; admitted to the bar, 1891; elected Justice of the Supreme Court of New York for term beginning January 1, 1914; designated by the Governor to act as associate judge of the Court of Appeals of New York, February 2, 1914; elected associate judge of the Court of Appeals for term beginning January 1, 1918; elected chief judge of the Court of Appeals for term beginning January 1, 1927; resigned as chief judge, March 7, 1932, having been nominated by President Hoover, February 15, 1932, as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and confirmed by the Senate, February 24, 1932; entered upon the duties of that office March 14, 1932; trustee of Columbia University, 1928-32; vice president of the American Law Institute, 1923-32; awarded the Ames Medal by Harvard University for distinguished contributions to jurisprudence, 1931; awarded the Roosevelt Memorial Medal for distinguished services in the development of public law, 1931; honorary LL. D., Columbia University, 1915; Yale University, 1921; New York University, 1922; University of Michigan, 1923; Harvard University, 1927; St. Johns University, Brooklyn, 1928; St. Lawrence University, Williams College, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, 1932; University of Chicago, Brown University, 1933; University of London, 1936; L. H. D., Yeshiva College, 1935; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; author, The Jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals, 1903; The Nature of the Judicial Process (Yale University lectures), 1921; The Growth of the Law (Yale University lectures), 1924; The Paradoxes of Legal Science (Columbia University lectures), 1928; Law and Literature, and other essays and addresses, 1930.

HUGO LAFAYETTE BLACK, of Birmingham, Ala., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was born in Clay County, Ala., February 27, 1886; attended the public school at Ashland, Clay County, Ala.; LL. B., University of Alabama, 1906; lawyer; captain, Eighty-first Regiment Field Artillery, World War; married; elected to the United States Senate in 1926; reelected in 1932, and served until his resignation, having been nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 12, 1937, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; confirmed by the Senate on August 17, 1937, and took his seat on October 4, 1937.

RESIDENCES OF THE JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT

[The designates those whose wives accompany them; the † designates those whose daughters accompany them]

*Mr. Chief Justice Hughes, 2223 R Street.

Mr. Justice McReynolds, 2400 Sixteenth Street.

*Mr. Justice Brandeis, 2205 California Street.

*Mr. Justice Sutherland, 2029 Connecticut Avenue.

**Mr. Justice Butler, 1229 Nineteenth Street.

*Mr. Justice Stone, 2340 Wyoming Avenue.

*Mr. Justice Roberts, 1401 Thirty-first Street.

Mr. Justice Cardozo, 2101 Connecticut Avenue.

*Mr. Justice Black, "Cranford," Quaker Lane, Alexandria, Va.

†Mr. Justice Van Devanter (retired), 2101 Connecticut Avenue.

OFFICERS OF THE SUPREME COURT

Clerk.-Charies Elmore Cropley, Cathedral Mansions South.

Deputy clerks.-Reginald C. Dilli, 1329 Hemlock Street; Hugh W. Barr, 4701

Connecticut Avenue.

Marshal.-Frank Key Green, 3122 Q Street.

Reporter.-Ernest Knaebel, 3707 Morrison Street.

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CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEALS OF THE UNITED STATES

First judicial circuit.-Mr. Justice Brandeis. Districts of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Puerto Rico.

Circuit judges.-George Hutchins Bingham, Manchester, N. H.; Scott Wilson, Portland, Maine; James M. Morton, Jr., New Bedford, Mass. Second judicial circuit.-Mr. Justice Stone. Districts of Vermont, Connecticut, northern New York, southern New York, eastern New York, and western New York.

Circuit judges.-Martin T. Manton, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Learned Hand, New York, N. Y.; Thomas W. Swan, New Haven, Conn.; Augustus N. Hand, New York, N. Y.; Harrie Brigham Chase, Brattleboro, Vt.; Julian W. Mack, New York, N. Y. Third judicial circuit.-Mr. Justice Roberts. Districts of New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, middle Pennsylvania, western Pennsylvania, and Delaware. Circuit judges.-Joseph Buffington, Pittsburgh, Pa.; J. Warren Davis, Trenton, N. J.; Victor B. Woolley, Wilmington, Del.; J. Whitaker Thompson, Philadelphia, Pa.; John Biggs, Wilmington, Del. Fourth judicial circuit.-Mr. Chief Justice Hughes. Districts of Maryland, northern West Virginia, southern West Virginia, eastern Virginia, western Virginia, eastern North Carolina, western North Carolina, and eastern and western South Carolina.

Circuit judges.—John J. Parker, Charlotte, N. C.; Elliott Northcott, Huntington, W. Va.; Morris A. Soper, Baltimore, Md.

Fifth judicial circuit. Mr. Justice Black. Districts of northern Georgia, southern Georgia, middle Georgia, northern Florida, southern Florida, northern Alabama, middle Alabama, southern Alabama, northern Mississippi, southern Mississippi, eastern Louisiana, western Louisiana, northern Texas, southern Texas, eastern Texas, western Texas, and Canal Zone. Circuit judges.-Rufus É. Foster, New Orleans, La.; Samuel H. Sibley, Atlanta, Ga.; Joseph C. Hutcheson, Jr., Houston, Tex.; Edwin R. Holmes, Jackson and Yazoo, Miss.

Sixth judicial circuit.-Mr. Justice McReynolds. Districts of northern Ohio, southern Ohio, eastern Michigan, western Michigan, eastern Kentucky, western Kentucky, eastern Tennessee, middle Tennessee, and western Tennessee.

Circuit judges.-Charles H. Moorman, Louisville, Ky.; Xenophon Hicks, Knoxville, Tenn.; Julian W. Mack, New York, Ń. Y.; Charles C. Simons, Detroit, Mich.; Florence E. Allen, Cleveland, Ohio.

Seventh judicial circuit.—Mr. Justice Cardozo. Districts of Indiana, northern Illinois, eastern Illinois, southern Illinois, eastern Wisconsin, and western Wisconsin.

Circuit judges.-Evan A. Evans, Madison, Wis.; William M. Sparks, Indianapolis, Ind.; J. Earl Major, Springfield, Ill.; Walter E. Treanor, of Indiana. Eighth judicial circuit.-Mr. Justice Butler. Districts of Minnesota, northern Iowa, southern Iowa, eastern Missouri, western Missouri, eastern Arkansas, western Arkansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Circuit judges.-Kimbrough Stone, Kansas City, Mo.; John B. Sanborn, St. Paul, Minn.; Archibald K. Gardner, Aberdeen, S. Dak.; Joseph W. Woodrough, Omaha, Nebr.; Seth Thomas, Fort Dodge, Iowa.

Ninth judicial circuit.-Mr. Justice Sutherland. Districts of northern California, southern California, Oregon, Nevada, Montana, eastern Washington, western Washington, Idaho, Arizona, and Territories of Alaska and Hawaii.

Circuit judges.-Curtis D. Wilbur, San Francisco, Calif.; Francis A. Garrecht, Spokane, Wash.; William Denman, San Francisco, Calif.; Clifton Mathews, Phoenix, Ariz.; and Bert Haney, Portland, Oreg.; Albert Lee Stephens, Los Angeles, Calif.; William Healy, Boise, Idaho.

Tenth judicial circuit.-Mr. Justice Butler. Districts of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Kansas, eastern Oklahoma, western Oklahoma, northern Oklahoma, and New Mexico.

Circuit judges.-Robert E. Lewis, Denver, Colo.; Orie L. Phillips, Denver, Colo.; Sam G. Bratton, Albuquerque, N. Mex.; Robert Lee Williams, Durant, Okla.

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

(Court of Appeals Bldg., Judiciary Square. Phone, NAtional 4624)

D. LAWRENCE GRONER, chief justice, was born in Norfolk, Va., September 6, 1873; educated at Washington and Lee University and the University of Virginia; commenced practice in Norfolk, Va., in 1894; appointed United States attorney, eastern district of Virginia, 1910; member State council of defense of Virginia, 1917; appointed judge of the United States District Court, eastern district of Virginia, May 1921; appointed judge of the United States Court of Appeals, Washington, February 1931; Phi Beta Kappa, University of Virginia; LL. D. Washington and Lee University, National University.

HAROLD M. STEPHENS, associate justice; born in Crete, Nebr., March 6, 1886, son of Frank B. and Lunette (Stebbins) Stephens; educated at University of Utah, 1904-6; Cornell University, 1907-9; Harvard Law School, 191013, 1931-33; University of California, 1930–31; degrees—A. B., Cornell, 1909; LL. B., Harvard Law School, 1913; S. J. D., Harvard Law School, 1932; married Virginia Adelle Bush, of Salt Lake City, Utah, August 6, 1912; admitted to Utah bar 1912 and began practice in Salt Lake City; assistant prosecuting attorney, Salt Lake County, 1915-17; judge third judicial district court, Utah, 1917-21; member Cheney, Jensen, Holman and Stephens, Salt Lake City, 1921-28; Martineau and Stephens, Los Angeles, 1928; member grievance committee Utah State Bar Association, 1922-23; member code commission to revise Utah laws, 1928; acting associate director American College of Surgeons, 1921; president Salt Lake City Community Clinic and Dispensary, 1923-28; author Administrative Tribunals and the Rules of Evidence; appointed by President Roosevelt Assistant Attorney General of the United States, June 14, 1933; the assistant to the Attorney General, July 5, 1935; nominated associate justice of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia by President Roosevelt July 23, 1935; confirmed by the Senate July 24, 1935; entered upon the duties of that office October 7, 1935.

JUSTIN MILLER, associate justice; born in Crescent City, Calif., November 17, 1888; A. B., Stanford University, 1911; LL. B., University of Montana, 1913; J. D., Stanford University, 1914; D. C. L., Yale University, 1934; engaged in general practice of law, in California, 1914–21; district attorney, King's County, Calif., 1915-18; attorney and executive officer, California State Commission of Immigration and Housing, 1919-21; professor of law, University of Oregon, 1921-23; University of Minnesota, 1923-26; University of California, 1926-27; dean, School of Law, University of Southern California, 1927-30; dean, School of Law, Duke University, 1930-35; special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, 1934-36; member of the United States Board of Tax Appeals from January to August 1937; nominated associate justice of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia by President Roosevelt and confirmed by the Senate in August 1937; member of the American Bar Association, and chairman of its Section of Criminal Law, 1927-37; member of the Federal Bar Association, serving as its president, 1935-37; member of the North Carolina Bar Association, and chairman of its Committee on Uniform Laws, 1932-34; member of the Los Angeles Bar Association, 1927-30, and chairman of its Committee on Juvenile Courts; life member of American Law Institute; member of American Judicature Society; member of Phi Beta Kappa, Order of the Coif, Phi Delta Phi, Omicron Delta Kappa, Delta Chi; author of Miller on Criminal Law and articles in various legal periodicals.

HENRY WHITE EDGERTON, associate justice; born in Rush Center, Kans., October 20, 1888; married; educated in the public schools of Binghamton and Ithaca, N. Y., and Central High School, Washington, D. C.; attended the University of Wisconsin and graduated with the degree of A. B. from Cornell University in 1910; studied at the law school of the University of Paris from 1910 to 1911; received LL. B. degree from the Harvard Law School in 1914; practiced law in St. Paul, Minn., and Boston, Mass., and is a member of the bar of both States; was a member of the faculty of Georgetown University and the University of Chicago and has been professor of law at Cornell University since 1929; served as special assistant to the Attorney General from 1934 to 1935; is the author of many legal treatises and a contributor to numerous law reviews; nominated associate justice of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia by President Roosevelt, and confirmed by the Senate December 9, 1937.