Mahlon Pitney

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Mahlon Pitney

Mahlon Pitney (born February 5, 1858 in Morristown , New Jersey , † December 9, 1924 in Washington, DC ) was an American lawyer and politician of the Republican Party , who was both a member of the US House of Representatives for New Jersey and a judge on United States Supreme Court was.

Life

The son of a lawyer studied after school at Princeton College and graduated from it in 1879. After a subsequent postgraduate study of law , he was admitted to the bar in the state of New Jersey in 1882 and then worked as a lawyer.

Later Pitney, who was also a Freemason, was politically involved in the Republican Party and was elected as its candidate in 1895 to the House of Representatives of the United States , where he represented the fourth congressional electoral district of New Jersey from March 4, 1895 to January 10, 1899 . After resigning from the US House of Representatives, he became a member of the New Jersey Senate in 1899 and was President of the Senate for some time in 1901 during his membership, which lasted until 1901.

In 1901 he was appointed a judge at the New Jersey Supreme Court , the Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey, and was a member of this until 1908. He then became Chancellor of New Jersey.

On May 18, 1912, Mahlon Pitney was appointed as the successor to John Marshall Harlan by US President William Howard Taft to the Supreme Court Justice of the USA and was a member of this for over ten years. During his membership in 1914 a fundamental decision was made on the exclusion or blocking principle in the Weeks v. United States . In order to enforce the fundamental rights under the 4th and 5th Amendment to the United States Constitution , the Supreme Court ruled that if investigative organs obtain evidence through illegal arrest, improper search or disapproving interrogation methods, it will be excluded from use in a trial ( exclusionary rule ).

On December 31, 1922 he resigned from his judicial office after suffering a stroke .

Mahlon Pitney was the great grandfather of actor Christopher Reeve .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ US Supreme Court 232 US 383
  2. ^ Ancestry of Christopher Reeve

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personal data
SURNAME Pitney, Mahlon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Morristown, New Jersey , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1924
Place of death Washington, DC