Herschel Whitfield Arant

Herschel Whitfield Arant (born July 18, 1887 in Church Hill , Tallapoosa County , Alabama , †  January 14, 1941 in Columbus , Ohio ) was an American lawyer . After his appointment by President Franklin D. Roosevelt , he served as a federal judge on the Federal Court of Appeals for the sixth district from 1939 until his death in 1941 .

Career

After attending school, Herschel Arant graduated from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa , where he obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in 1935 . He then enrolled at Yale University , where he graduated in 1911 as a Bachelor of Arts and in 1912 as a Master of Arts . At the Yale Law School finally followed in 1915 the Bachelor of Laws , after which he practiced as a lawyer in Atlanta ( Georgia ) until 1920 . During this time he was also active from 1916 to 1920 as a professor of law at the School of Law at Emory University . From 1920 to 1922 he was an assistant professor at Yale before moving to the University of Kansas , where he taught law until 1928 and was dean of the local School of Law . In the same functions he was employed from 1928 to 1939 at the College of Law at Ohio State University .

On February 9, 1939, Arant was appointed by President Roosevelt to judge the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, with jurisdiction over the states of Kentucky , Michigan , Ohio and Tennessee ; so he took over a previously newly established seat. After confirmation by the US Senate , which took place twelve days later, he could take office on March 4 of the same year and exercise it until his death on January 14, 1941. His seat then fell to Thomas Francis McAllister . Herschel Arant was buried in Sunset Cemetery in Galloway .

Web links

• Herschel Whitfield Arant at The Political Graveyard

• Herschel Whitfield Arant in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Herschel Whitfield Arant in the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges