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...Wiley Rutledge had been sitting on the U.S. Court of Appeals for nearly four years when he was summoned one day to the White House. "Wiley," said President Roosevelt, "we had a number of candidates for the court who were highly qualified but they didn't have geography-you have that...
...Wiley Rutledge did, indeed, have geography. Born in Kentucky, the son of a circuit-riding Baptist preacher, he had lived, studied and taught in nine states, from Indiana to New Mexico. But he had more than that to recommend him. Always more a teacher than a practicing lawyer, he had made one reputation as a scholarly law-school dean before he came to Washington, made another on the bench there as an able, hard-working judge. So on Feb. 15, 1943, hearty, dignified Wiley Rutledge became Franklin Roosevelt's eighth and final appointee to the Supreme Court...
...Wiley Rutledge, Kentucky-born, son of a Baptist preacher, large, dignified and pedagogical, onetime dean of Washington University's and Iowa State University's law schools, a liberal in the tradition of the Midwest...
...Wiley (RIS); 2, Benesh (RIS); 3, Spivak (H). Time...
...Wiley (RIS); 2, Squdrito (RIS); 3, Carpenter (RIS). Time...