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JAMES CLARK
McREYNOLDS was born in Elkston, Kentucky, on February
3, 1862. He was graduated from Vanderbilt University in
1882, and from the University of Virginia Law School in
1884. McReynolds settled in Nashville, Tennessee, and
established a law practice. He ran unsuccessfully for
Congress in 1896. In 1900, McReynolds accepted a position
as an adjunct Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University
and taught there for three years. In 1903, President Theodore
Roosevelt appointed McReynolds the Assistant Attorney
General for the Antitrust Division in the Department of
Justice. McReynolds resigned from the Department of Justice
in 1907 to return to the practice of law, this time in
New York, New York. In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson
appointed him Attorney General of the United States. On
August 19, 1914, President Wilson nominated McReynolds
to the Supreme Court of the United States. The Senate
confirmed the appointment on August 29, 1914. McReynolds
retired from the Supreme Court on January 31, 1941, after
twenty-six years of service. He died on August 24, 1946,
at the age of eighty-four. |
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