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 judge in the Supreme Court 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. ) from. In 1915 he was admitted to the bar in the state of Indiana. Thereafter, he completed post-graduate studies at Yale Law School and finished this in 1916 with a Master of Laws ( LL.M.).

During the First World War he served from 1917 to 1919 his military service as a captain of the motor transport corps of the U.S. Army from. Subsequently, he was until 1943 a captain in the United States Army Reserve. In 1919, he became a lawyer and ran again in 1920 and 1930 without success in the primaries of the Democratic Party for the elections to the U.S. House of Representatives. Later, he was from 1933 to 1934 in the civil service of Indiana as a member of the Commission for Public Service ( Public Service Commission ).

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

After his defeat to Republican challenger Raymond E. Willis 1941, he was first administrative assistant in the White House staff. He then worked from 1941 to 1949 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 U.S. President Harry S. Truman as a judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. He held until his retirement for health reasons on October 15, 1956 this office. During his tenure as a judge, he contributed to the procedures that are v. Board of Education known under the collective term Brown.