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Harold Hitz Burton
Birth: June 22, 1888, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
Education: Bowdoin College, A.B., 1909; Harvard University, LL.B., 1912.
Official Positions: Member, Ohio House of Representatives, 1929; director of law, Cleveland, 1929–1932; acting mayor of Cleveland, November 9, 1931–February 20, 1932; mayor of Cleveland, 1935–1940; U.S. senator, 1941–1945.
Supreme Court Service: Nominated associate justice by President Harry S. Truman, September 18, 1945, to replace Owen J. Roberts, who had resigned; confirmed by the Senate, September 19, 1945, by a voice vote; took judicial oath October 1, 1945; retired October 13, 1958; replaced by Potter Stewart, appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Death: October 28, 1964, Washington, D.C.
Harold Burton was the first of President Harry Truman's four appointments to the Supreme Court. A career politician with no prior judicial experience, Burton brought a ...
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