Wiley Blount Rutledge

Wiley Blount Rutledge, Jr. ( born July 20, 1894 in Cloverport, Breckinridge County, Kentucky, † September 10, 1949 in York, Maine) was an American lawyer and judge of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Biography

After the completion of Maryville College Prep in 1910 he began studying at Maryville College, he continued in 1913 at the University of Tennessee and in 1914 graduated from the University of Wisconsin- Madison. He then worked as a teacher at a high school before he began postgraduate studies in law at the Law School of Indiana University. After the completion of this study at the Law School at the University of Colorado, he was appointed professor there of Law.

In 1930 he became first Dean of the Faculty of Law, Washington University in St. Louis and was then 1935-1939 Dean of the Law Faculty of the University of Iowa. After his appeal was made to the judge of the Federal Court of Appeal ( U.S. Court of Appeals ) for the District of Columbia.

On February 15, 1943 Rutledge (Associate Justice) was U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt as the successor of James F. Byrnes to the assessor judges appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States. His appointment was the eighth and last appointment during Roosevelt's twelve-year presidency. One of his law clerk was John Paul Stevens, who was 1975-2010 also Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. After a stroke, known for his liberal positions Rutledge fell on September 2, 1949 into a coma and died eight days later. His successor as Associate Justice Sherman Minton was.