On this date in 1862, Newton C. Young was born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. Raised on a farm and educated in Tabor, Iowa and Iowa City, Young went on to graduate Iowa State University in 1886, and received his law degree in 1887 from the same institution. In 1887, Young moved to Bathgate, which was […]
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Today, Larry Richards was elected Vice-President of the Greater Grand Forks County Bar Association. Larry will begin his new position after he is sworn in on February 27th. Until he takes his new position, Larry will continue as Secretary/Treasurer of the Association. Along with Larry, Sarah Gereszek was elected President to replace current President Ted […]
On this date in 1892, Justice Joseph Bradley passed away in Washington, D.C. at the age of 78. Born on March 14, 1813 in Berne, New York, Bradley graduated Rutgers University in 1836. Bradley moved to Newark, New Jersey and was admitted to the Bar in that state in 1839. In private practice in New […]
On this date in 1862, Noah Swayne was nominated by President Abraham Lincoln to serve as an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court. Born on December 7, 1804 in Frederick County, Virginia, Swayne was raised in a traditional Quaker family. He “read the law” and was admitted to the Virginia Bar in 1823. […]
On this date in 1985, Beryl Levine was appointed by Governor George Sinner to the position of Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court. Born on November 9, 1935 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Levine went on to attend the University of Manitoba from 1952 to 1955. Levine, who was a housewife at the time, emigrated […]
On this date in 1835, Justice Gabriel Duvall retired as an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court. Born on December 6, 1752 at Darnall’s Grove, which was the family plantation in Prince Georges County, Maryland, Duvall went on to study law under a tutor in Annapolis, Maryland, just as fighting was breaking out […]
On this day in 1937, Judge Kermit Bye was born in a railroad section house during a blizzard in the small town of Hatton, ND. After Bye graduated the University of North Dakota School of Law in 1962, he began his career as Deputy Security Commissioner for the State of North Dakota which was a […]
On this date in 1932, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. retired as an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court at the age of 90. Born in Boston, Massachusetts on March 8, 1841, Holmes was the son of a highly respected and prominent Boston physician. He was raised in Boaston in a family of comfortable […]
On this date in 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt nominated Wiley B. Rutledge to serve as an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court. Rutledge was born in Cloverport, Kentucky on July 20, 1894. After graduating with an undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Rutledge moved to Indiana and taught high school while attending […]
On this date in 1907, Justice Edward Engerud resigned as a Justice on the North Dakota Supreme Court. Born on February 13, 1868 in Racine, Wisconsin, Engerud moved to Fergus Falls, Minnesota in 1881 where he began studying law. After being admitted to the Minnesota Bar in 1889, he practiced law in Fergus Falls, MN […]