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This is the first biography of David J. Brewer, an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1889 to 1910. Prior to rising to the nation’s highest tribunal, Brewer served as a county probate judge, a state district judge, a Kansas State Supreme Court justice, and a federal circuit court judge. He was known not only for his long tenure on the Supreme Court but also for his numerous off-the-bench statements as an orator and writer. Many of Brewer’s judicial opinions and nonjudicial utterances created controversy, particularly when he confronted the reform issues of his day. The court, then presided over by Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller, has been seen as reactionary, dete...
Letter to Harry H. Hause, dated Nov. 20, 1890, and typed letter to Hamilton Holt, dated June 15, 1903. In the first letter, Brewer expresses his view of how lawyers should conduct their lives; in the second, he declines to write an article for Mr. Holt's publication in New York.
A welcome addition to high school, college, and library collections, this eBook examines the biographical facts of United States Supreme Court justice David J.
Descriptors: Brewer, Supreme Court, United States Supreme Court.
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