biography
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| (1890–1965)
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| biography:
| Judge, born near Georgetown, Indiana, USA. As a US senator (Democrat, Indiana, 1935), he promoted New Deal legislation and rose to assistant majority whip. He served as a judge on the US Circuit Court of Appeals (1941–9) until President Harry Truman named him to the Supreme Court (1949–56). |
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