MEMBERS OF THE SUPREME COURT 



(References appear in order of appointment.) 



"WHITE, Edward Douglass, Chief Justice. See page 6271. 



McKENNA, Joseph (born 1843), is a native of Pennsylvania, but he rerm- ed to California 

 at the age of 12 and settled with his parents at Benicia. He was graduated from the Collegiate 

 Institute in that town in 1865, and in the same year was admitted to the bar. Entry into public 

 life began by election as prosecuting attorney. From 1884 to 1892 he was a member of Congress 

 from California. President Harrison, in the latter year, appointed him a United States Circuit 

 Judge; in 1897 he became Attorney-General of the United States in the Cabinet of President 

 McKinley, in which he served until January, 1898, when he was appointed an Associate Justice. 



HOLMES, Oliver Wendell, Associate Justice. See page 2812. 



DAY, u ill in in Rufus (born 1849), was born in Ohio, and he has made that state his home. 

 He was graduated at the University of Michigan in 1870 and two years later was admitted to the 

 bar. He began practice in Canton, O., and filled several local judgeships. In 1897 he became an 

 assistant Secretary of State, and was appointed Secretary of State by President McKinley in 

 1898. The next year he received the post of United States Circuit Judge. In 1903 President 

 Roosevelt placed him on the Supreme Bench. 



VAN DEVANTER, Willis (born 1859), is a native of Indiana and was graduated from 

 De Pauw University in that state and from the Cincinnati College of Law. In 1884 he moved to 

 Wyoming and began his public career as a commissioner to revise the state statutes. He was 

 a member of the territorial legislature, and in 1889 was chosen chief justice of the state supreme 

 court. From 1897 to 1903 he was an assistant Attorney-General of the United States, then for 

 seven years was a United States Circuit Judge. In 1910 President Taft appointed him to the 

 Supreme Court. 



PITJVEY, Mahlon (born 1858), is a native of New Jersey, and he has made that state his 

 home. He was a classmate of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University, from which he was 

 graduated in 1879. Three years later he became a lawyer and started his practice at Morristown. 

 Elected to Congress as a Representative in 1895, he served two terms, then became a member of 

 the New Jersey senate, holding that office also two terms. In 1901 he was raised to the post of 

 associate justice of the state supreme court, seven years later became chancellor of the state, 

 and in 1912 was appointed to the United States Supreme Court by President Taft. 



McREYlVOLDS, James Clark (born 1862), is a native of Kentucky. He was graduated 

 from Vanderbilt University in 1882 and in 1884 in law from the University of Virginia. For sev- 

 eral years he practiced law in Nashville, and for three years following 1900 was a professor of 

 law in Vanderbilt University. In 1903 he became an assistant Attorney-General of the United 

 States, then in 1907 began the practice of law in New York, and in 1913 entered the Cabinet of 

 President Wilson as Attorney-General. In 1914 the President named him an Associate Justice 

 of the Supreme Court. 



CLARK, John Ilessin (born 1857), is a native of Ohio, and was graduated from Western 

 Reserve University, in that state, in 1877. The next year he became a lawyer, and practiced in 

 Youngstown (1880-1897) and in Cleveland (1897-1914). In the latter year he was appointed 

 United States District Judge for the northern district of Ohio, and in 1916 President Wilson 

 named him an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. 

 BRANDEIS, Louis Dembitz. See pages 893 and 6308. 



