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Wiley Blount Rutledge Jr.
Birth: July 20, 1894, Cloverport, Kentucky.
Education: University of Wisconsin, A.B., 1914; University of Colorado, LL.B., 1922.
Official Positions: Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1939–1943.
Supreme Court Service: Nominated associate justice by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, January 11, 1943, to replace James F. Byrnes, who had resigned; confirmed by the Senate, February 8, 1943, by a voice vote; took judicial oath February 15, 1943; served until September 10, 1949; replaced by Sherman Minton, nominated by President Harry S. Truman.
Death: September 10, 1949, York, Maine.
Wiley Rutledge was the last of eight justices Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed to the Supreme Court and one of the most forward-thinking proponents of civil liberties and civil rights in the Court's history. With his colleague Frank Murphy, Rutledge ...
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