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WILEY B. RUTLEDGE
was born in Cloverport, Kentucky, on July 20, 1894. During
his early years, his family moved successively to Texas,
Louisiana, and Asheville, North Carolina. Rutledge attended
Maryville College in Tennessee for two years and transferred
to the University of Wisconsin, from which he was graduated
in 1914. He then taught high school and attended Indiana
University Law school part-time. Rutledge received his
law degree from the University of Colorado in 1922. Rutledge
practiced law for two years with a firm in Boulder, Colorado,
before deciding on an academic career. For the next fifteen
years, he was a professor of law and dean at a succession
of law schools. In 1935, he became Dean of the University
of Iowa College of Law. In 1939, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt appointed Rutledge to the United States Court
of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Four
years later, on January 11, 1943, President Roosevelt
nominated Rutledge to the Supreme Court of the United
States. The Senate confirmed the appointment on February
8, 1943. Rutledge served on the Supreme Court for six
years. He died on September 10, 1949, at the age of fifty-five.
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