Walter Bruchhausen

Walter Bruchhausen (born May 29, 1892 in Brooklyn , New York , †  October 11, 1976 in Lancaster , New Hampshire ) was an American lawyer . After his appeal by President Dwight D. Eisenhower , he served from 1953 as a federal judge at the federal district court for the eastern district of New York.

Career

Walter Bruchhausen was born in 1892 in the then still independent city of Brooklyn. After finishing school, he attended the School of Law of New York University , where he the 1912 Bachelor of Laws acquired. During the First World War he served in the American armed forces. From 1919 to 1953 Bruchhausen practiced as a lawyer in New York . In 1950 he ran for a seat on the New York Supreme Court ; In the same year he became a member of the State Judicial Council of New York ( State Judicial Council ), which he remained until 1953. Bruchhausen was a Republican , but never held a political election office. In the presidential election in 1952 he was a member of the Electoral College as a representative of his state , which Dwight D. Eisenhower elected president.

On April 18, 1953, Bruchhausen was appointed by President Eisenhower to succeed the late Harold Maurice Kennedy as a judge at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York . After confirmation by the US Senate , which took place on May 7 of the same year, he was able to take office the next day. From 1959 to 1962 he was Chief Judge Chairman of this federal court ; then Joseph Carmine Zavatt succeeded him in this capacity. On May 20, 1967, he switched to senior status and thus effectively retired. His seat fell to Orrin Grimmell Judd . Walter Bruchhausen died on October 11, 1976 in the Weeks Memorial Hospital in Lancaster and was buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Web links

• Walter Bruchhausen in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Walter Bruchhausen at The Political Graveyard
• Walter Bruchhausen in the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges