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William Rufus Day
Birth: April 17, 1849, Ravenna, Ohio.
Education: University of Michigan, A.B., 1870; University of Michigan Law School, 1871–1872.
Official Positions: Judge, Court of Common Pleas, Canton, Ohio, 1886; first assistant U.S. secretary of state, 1897–1898; U.S. secretary of state, 1898; member, U.S. delegation, Paris Peace Conference, 1898–1899; judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1899–1903; umpire, Mixed Claims Commission, 1922–1923.
Supreme Court Service: Nominated associate justice by President Theodore Roosevelt, February 19, 1903, to replace George Shiras Jr., who had resigned; confirmed by the Senate, February 23, 1903, by a voice vote; took judicial oath March 2, 1903; resigned November 13, 1922; replaced by Pierce Butler, nominated by President Warren G. Harding.
Death: July 9, 1923, Mackinac Island, Michigan.
Until late in the fourth decade of his life, ...
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