John Ries Bartels

John Ries Bartels (born November 8, 1897 in Baltimore , Maryland , †  February 13, 1997 in Brooklyn , New York City ) was an American lawyer . After his appointment by President Dwight D. Eisenhower , he served as a federal judge in the federal district court for the eastern district of New York from 1959 to 1973 .

Career

John Bartels served after finishing school during the final stages of World War I in the US Army . He then attended Johns Hopkins University in his hometown of Baltimore, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1920 . This was followed in 1923 with a Bachelor of Laws at Harvard Law School . From 1925 to 1959 he ran a private law firm in New York City. Between 1945 and 1950 and again from 1952 to 1957 he was a member of a commission to review the state laws of New York. He also served from 1950 to 1951 as a Supreme Court Justice in Kings County, which is congruent with the New York borough of Brooklyn. Bartels was a member of the Republican Party , but never held a political office. In 1944 he was nominated as a substitute delegate for the Republican National Convention .

On April 20, 1959, Bartels was appointed by President Eisenhower to succeed Robert Alexander Inch as a judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York . This borough includes the New York borough of Staten Island and Long Island as a whole. After confirmation by the US Senate , which took place on July 28 of the same year, he was able to take office two days later. On December 31, 1973, he switched to senior status and thus effectively retired. His seat fell to Henry Bramwell . John Bartels died in Brooklyn on February 13, 1997 at the age of 99 and was buried in Parkwood Cemetery in his native Baltimore.

Web links

• John Ries Bartels at The Political Graveyard
• John Ries Bartels in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• John Ries Bartels in the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges