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Horace Harmon Lurton
Birth: February 26, 1844, Newport, Kentucky.
Education: Douglas University (University of Chicago), 1860; Cumberland Law School, L.B., 1867.
Official Positions: Chancellor in equity, 1875–1878; judge, Tennessee Supreme Court, 1886–1893; judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1893–1909.
Supreme Court Service: Nominated associate justice by President William Howard Taft, December 13, 1909, to replace Rufus W. Peckham, who had died; confirmed by the Senate, December 20, 1909, by a voice vote; took judicial oath January 3, 1910; served until July 12, 1914; replaced by James C. McReynolds, nominated by President Woodrow Wilson.
Death: July 12, 1914, Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Horace Lurton was one of the last men appointed to the Supreme Court to have served in the Civil War. Although only eighteen years of age when the war ...
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