Sherman Minton

Judge Sherman Minton

Sherman Minton (born October 20, 1890 in Georgetown , Floyd County , Indiana , † April 9, 1965 in New Albany , Indiana) was an American politician and Supreme Court Justice of the United States .

biography

After attending high school in New Albany, he studied law at Indiana University and graduated in 1915 with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). In 1915 he was admitted to the Indiana State Bar. He then completed postgraduate studies at Yale Law School , which he completed in 1916 with a Master of Laws (LL.M.).

Election poster from 1920

During the First World War he did his military service from 1917 to 1919 as captain of the Motor Transport Corps of the US Army . He was then a captain in the United States Army Reserve until 1943 . In 1919 he became a lawyer again and ran unsuccessfully in the Democratic Party's primary elections for the US House of Representatives in 1920 and 1930 . He later served in the Indiana State Service from 1933 to 1934 as a member of the Public Service Commission .

In 1934 he was elected as a candidate for the Democratic Party against the Republican incumbent Arthur Raymond Robinson to the US Senator and represented as such from January 3, 1935 to January 3, 1941 the interests of Indiana in the United States Senate .

After his defeat by the Republican challenger Raymond E. Willis , he was initially an administrative assistant on the staff of the White House in 1941 . He then served from 1941 to 1949 as a judge at the 7th United States Court of Appeals , which is responsible for appeals in the states of Illinois , Indiana and Wisconsin .

On October 12, 1949, he was nominated by US President Harry S. Truman as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court . He held this office until his resignation for health reasons on October 15, 1956. During his tenure as a judge, he participated in the proceedings that came under the collective term Brown v. Board of Education are known.

Web links

Commons : Sherman Minton  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Sherman Minton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Sherman Minton in the nndb (English)