F. Ryan Duffy

Francis Ryan Duffy ( born June 23, 1888 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; † August 16, 1979 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) was an American lawyer and politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. Senate.

After schooling, Ryan Duffy wrote to the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he made a 1910 its conclusion. In 1912 the legal examination at the Law School of the University. In the same year he was admitted to the bar and began to practice as a lawyer in his hometown of Fond du Lac. During the First World War he served in the U.S. Army from 1917; at his retirement in 1919 he reached the rank of Major. He then returned to his office to Fond du Lac.

Without having previously held a political office, Duffy was erected in 1932 by the Democrats for election to the U.S. Senate. He met with Republican John B. Chapple, who was previously in the Primary his party's incumbent John J. Blaine had conquered, and prevailed against them, whereupon he entered the Congress on March 4, 1933. When trying to re-election, he failed his part, six years later at the Republican Alexander Wiley, why he had to give up his Senate seat on January 3, 1939.

As a result, Duffy refocused on his legal career. He was nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a judge at the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin and held that post after the confirmation by the Senate from 1939 to 1949. Then he worked as a successor to the late Evan Alfred Evans to the Federal Court of Appeals for the Seventh District Court, where he presided as Chief Judge from 1954 to 1959. In 1966, he joined the senior status, but the court remained as a member through this semi - retirement until his death in August 1979.