Edward Terry Sanford

Edward Terry Sanford ( born July 23, 1865 in Knoxville, Tennessee, † March 8, 1930 in Washington, DC) was an American lawyer and university professor, and most recently a judge at the U.S. Supreme Court ( U.S. Supreme Court ).

Life

After schooling Sanford studied first at the University of Tennessee and received there in 1883 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and another Bachelor of Arts in 1885 after a subsequent study at Harvard University. He then continued his studies at Harvard University and earned a master's degree there in 1889, both of Arts ( MA ) and, after studying law at the local Law School with a Bachelor of Laws ( LL.B. ). While seiners studies, he was editor of the Harvard Law Review.

After his admission in 1888 were carried lawyer in the state of Tennessee, he worked as an attorney and partner in the law firm Lucky, Sanford, and Fowler. In addition, he was 1897-1923 Trustee of the University of Tennessee, where he also taught as a Lecturer Law 1898-1906. Between 1907 and 1908 he was during the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt as U.S. Assistant Attorney General one of the then Justice Minister Charles Joseph Bonaparte closest associates. He was also from 1907 to 1930 Trustee of the Peabody College in Nashville.

In 1908 he was appointed by President Roosevelt as a judge on the U.S. District Court for Eastern and Middle Tennessee, and held this post until 1923.

On February 19, 1923, he was appointed Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court by President Warren G. Harding and thus the successor of Mahlon Pitney. In June 1923, he participated in the landmark decision in proceedings Meyer v. Nebraska, after violating the prohibition of teaching in a non-English language as the question here German language against the resultant of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States parental rights.

The Office of the Associate Justice he practiced until his death on March 8, 1930 when he died from a tooth extraction had moved in poisoning. On the same day also died the Chief Justice of the United States and former U.S. President William Howard Taft. His successor as Associate Justice Owen Roberts was while Charles Evans Hughes new president of the U.S. Supreme Court was.

Publications

• Blount college and the University of Tennessee, 1894
• The constitutional convention of Tennessee of 1796, 1896