Word: bratton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With that limitation in mind, the quest becomes distinctly discouraging. The names one hears most frequently are Nen Mexico's Circuit Judge Sam Bratton California's Circuit Judge William Penman. Senator Louis B. Schwellenbach of Washington, and then, a little farther to the East, former Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan. There is nothing particularly against Mr. Bratton, who has served in Congress, in addition to his judicial experience. Politically perhaps his appointment would not be the expedient for the President, for New Mexico is rarely a crucial state, with its three electoral votes. Denman is a weak judge...
...President Roosevelt's opportunity to make his second appointment to the Supreme Court came in January when he received a letter announcing retirement of Justice (1 Sam G. Bratton, 2 Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 3 Harlan F. Stone, 4 Pierce Butler, 5 George Sutherland...
...Finally seven names were left. In one group three Federal Circuit Court judges: Sam Gilbert Bratton of New Mexico, Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr. of Texas, Samuel Hale Sibley of Georgia, and Chief Justice Walter Parker Stacy of North Carolina's Supreme Court. In another, three integral cogs of the New Deal: U. S. Solicitor General Stanley Forman Reed of Kentucky, Senator Sherman Minton of Indiana, Senator Hugo LaFayette Black of Alabama...
...joined by Governor Murphy of Michigan who flew to join him on the Presidential yacht. On the endless list of Court possibilities drawn up by the quidnuncs of the press, the name of Frank Murphy stood beside such others as Solicitor General Stanley Reed, Federal Judges Sam Gilbert Bratton (onetime U. S. Senator from New Mexico), Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr. of Houston, Texas, Florence Allen of Columbus, Law Professors Felix Frankfurter of Harvard, Lloyd Garrison of Wisconsin...
...ridden State he won a following of Spanish-American voters, of War veterans, of political liberals, all of whose languages he spoke, whose interests he championed. Although a nominal Republican he fought and broke Albert Fall's Republican machine. In 1924 he helped elect a Democratic Senator, Sam Bratton, and in 1926 a Republican Governor, Richard C. Dillon. Following year Governor Dillon named him to a vacancy in the U. S. Senate. As a Republican Senator he fought the Hoover policies in Washington and the Republican machine in New Mexico. Having helped to elect Roosevelt, he broke with Democrats...