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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Sherman Minton, Fred M. Vinson, Florence Ellinwood Allen, Robert L. Williams, Wiley Blount Rutledge, Thurman Arnold, Francis Biddle, Armistead Mason Dobie, Bert E. Haney, Robert P. Patterson, Jerome Frank, William Clark, Homer Bone, Justin Miller, Otto Kerner, Sr., Charles Breckenridge Faris, James Earl Major, Alfred P. Murrah, Harold Montelle Stephens, Walter A. Huxman, Charles Alvin Jones, Curtis L. Waller, Herbert Funk Goodrich, Edwin R. Holmes, Duncan Lawrence Groner, Joseph William Woodrough, Albert Branson Maris, Calvert Magruder, Herschel Whitfield Arant, Seth Thomas, Henry White Edgerton, Charles Edward Clark, Louis FitzHenry, William Denman, Thomas Francis McAllister, John Christopher Mahoney, Elwood Hamilton, Gerald McLaughlin, William Healy, Albert Lee Stephens, Sr., Leon Clarence McCord, John Biggs, Jr., Harvey M. Johnsen, John Donelson Martin, Sr., Francis Arthur Garrecht, Clifton Mathews, Sam Gilbert Bratton, Peter Woodbury, Walter Emanuel Treanor, Walter Garrett Riddick, Elmo Pearce Lee. Excerpt: Sherman "Shay" Minton (October 20, 1890 - April 9, 1965) was a Democratic United States Senator from Indiana and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was the most educated justice during his time on the Supreme Court; he attended Indiana University, Yale and the Sorbonne. He had served as a captain in World War I, then launched a legal and political career. In 1930, after two or three failed election attempts, he became a utility commissioner the administration of Indiana Governor Paul V. McNutt. In 1934, Minton won election to the United States Senate. During the campaign, he defended New Deal legislation in a series of addresses in which he suggested it was not necessary to uphold the Constitution during the Great Depression crisis. Minton's campaign was denounced by his politi...
