Latham Castle

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Latham Castle (born February 27, 1900 in Sandwich , DeKalb County , Illinois , †  March 10, 1986 ) was an American lawyer and politician . He served from 1952 to 1959 as Attorney General of the state of Illinois and then after his appointment by President Dwight D. Eisenhower as a federal judge until 1970 .

Career

After finishing school Latham Castle served in the final stages of the First World War as a soldier in the US Army . He then attended Northwestern University in Chicago and earned at the law school there in 1924 a Bachelor of Laws , whereupon he began to practice in Sandwich as a lawyer. From 1925 to 1928 he acted there as a city trial lawyer. In 1928 he held a similar position as Corporation Counsel in Sycamore . Between 1928 and 1940 Castle was a district attorney in DeKalb County and from 1940 to 1942 the deputy Attorney General of Illinois. He then became a District Court judge in DeKalb County and remained in that position until 1952.

That year, Castle successfully ran for the Republican Party nomination for the Illinois Attorney General . Then he prevailed in the election with 52:47 percent against the democratic incumbent Ivan A. Elliott . Four years later he was re-elected against James O'Keefe with a share of 55 percent of the vote. He did not end his second four-year term, however, because on February 26, 1959, President Eisenhower appointed him a judge at the Federal Court of Appeal for the seventh district. Confirmation by the US Senate took place on April 29 of the same year, after which Castle could succeed the late Philip J. Finnegan one day later . From 1968 he was chairman ( Chief Judge ) to the for the states of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin competent federal court before it on February 28, 1970 in the Senior status changed and in fact retired. His successor was Robert Arthur spokesman . Latham Castle died on March 10, 1986 in his hometown of Sandwich and was buried in the local Oak Ridge Cemetery .

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  1. ↑ ourcampaigns.com: Latham Castle
personal data
SURNAME Castle, Latham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Sandwich , DeKalb County , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1986