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  Sherman Minton
Sherman Minton was born in Indiana on October 20, 1890.
In 1949, Minton was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Harry S Truman, a former colleague of Minton's in the Senate.
Minton's reluctance to invalidate governmental actions is exemplified by his dissent in the Steel Seizure case, which held Harry Truman's seizure of the steel mills to avert a strike violated separation of powers.
www.michaelariens.com /ConLaw/justices/minton.htm   (320 words)

  
  Sherman Minton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sherman Minton, (October 20, 1890–April 9, 1965) was a United States Senator and an associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Minton remained popular in Democratic Party circles for his party loyalty under political pressure, and he was appointed to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals by FDR in 1940.
Minton is the namesake of the Sherman Minton Bridge which carries Interstate 64 across the Ohio River, connecting western Louisville, Kentucky with Minton's native New Albany, Indiana.
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 The religion of Sherman Minton, Supreme Court Justice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
That would mean the longest gap without a Catholic on the court since the 19th century was the 12-week period between the November 1939 death of Pierce Butler, the fourth Catholic on the court, and the swearing-in of Frank Murphy in February 1940.
However, Minton didn't become a Catholic until 1961, after he retired from the court in 1956.
Minton's seat in turn went to Brennan, who would be the sole Catholic on the court for 30 years.
www.adherents.com /people/pm/Sherman_Minton.html   (179 words)

  
 Sherman Minton -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Minton faithfully supported the (A reapportioning of something) New Deal and Roosevelt's "court-packing" plan, stands which cost him reelection in traditionally Republican Indiana in 1940.
Minton remained popular in Democratic Party circles for his party loyalty under political pressure, and he was appointed to the (Click link for more info and facts about Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals) Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals by FDR in 1940.
Minton was appointed to the high court by President (Click link for more info and facts about Harry S. Truman) Harry S. Truman on October 5, 1949, to replace the deceased (Click link for more info and facts about Wiley Rutledge) Wiley Rutledge.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sh/sherman_minton.htm   (389 words)

  
 Minton, Sherman: West's Encyclopedia of American Law   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sherman Minton served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1949 to 1956.
A strong supporter of President FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT's NEW DEAL policies when he served as a U.S. senator from Indiana, Minton maintained a consistent judicial philosophy that allowed the legislative and executive branches wide discretion without judicial interference.
Minton was born on October 20, 1890, in Georgetown, Indiana.
law.enotes.com /wests-law-encyclopedia/minton-sherman   (141 words)

  
 Friday, September 2, 1938
Minton was not the appointee to fill this vacancy to the Supreme Court left by the death of Justice Benjamin Cardozo who had died July 9.
The editorial's reference to antagonism between Minton and newspaper editors referred to his having introduced a bill in 1938 to make it a felony punishable by two years in prison and heavy fines, plus six months suspension from the mails for the publication, to the editor of any newspaper which published a "known untruth".
When it was rumored that the President was considering Sherman Minton, Indiana's blatant and unrestrained Senator, for the vacancy on the Supreme Court, we refused to bite.
www.wjcash.org /WJCash7/Charlotte.News.Articles/9-2-38.htm   (2058 words)

  
 John Marshall Harlan Papers | Seeley G. Mudd Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sherman Minton - opinion; John Marshall Harlan took no part in the consideration or decision of this case; Stanley F. Reed, with whom Felix Frankfurter and Harold H. Burton join, dissenting.
Sherman Minton - opinion; John Marshall Harlan concurs in the result; Stanley F. Reed and Felix Frankfurter agree that the writs...
Sherman Minton - opinion; Harold H. Burton dissenting for the reasons stated in the opinion of the Court of Appeals; Felix Frankfurter, whom Stanley F. Reed and John Marshall Harlan join, dissenting.
libweb.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/finding_aids/harlan/ser1-55.html   (1945 words)

  
 Sherman Minton : Our Community : Indiana Law   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sherman Minton '15 served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Justice from 1949 to 1956.
Sherman Minton was born in 1890 in New Albany (although some accounts place his birth at Georgetown, Indiana).
President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Minton to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit at the end of that term in 1940, and he served until he was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1949.
www.law.indiana.edu /webinit/mootcourt/minton.shtml   (412 words)

  
 Finding Aid from the Manuscript Section of the Indiana State Library
Sherman Minton was born on October 20, 1890, in Georgetown, Floyd County, Indiana.
Minton then became judge of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Minton served as an Associate Justice from 1949 to 1956, when he resigned due to poor health.
www.statelib.lib.in.us /www/isl/indiana/manuscripts/fa_index/fa_by_letter/m/s969.html   (308 words)

  
 U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Historical Minutes > 1941-1963 > Supreme Court Nominees Refuse to Testify
Minton rose rapidly in his Senate party's ranks.
In 1937, as assistant Senate majority whip, Minton vigorously defended President Franklin Roosevelt's ill-fated legislative plan to expand the membership of the Supreme Court, packing it with liberal justices to undercut that tribunal's conservative course.
When Judge Minton's nomination reached the Senate Judiciary Committee, several members recalled his earlier views on restructuring the high court.
www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/minute/Supreme_Court_Nominees_Refuse_To_Testify.htm   (485 words)

  
 OYEZ - Sherman Minton
Sherman Minton was elected to the United States Senate from Indiana in 1934.
Minton was nominated to the Supreme Court by Harry Truman, a close personal friend.
Minton voted to uphold statutes intended to protect the national security; he rejected challenges asserting violations of individual liberties.
www.oyez.org /justices/sherman_minton   (166 words)

  
 The Supreme Court Historical Society
SHERMAN MINTON was born in Georgetown, Indiana, on October 20, 1890.
Minton established a law practice in New Albany, Indiana, a town near his birthplace.
In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Minton to the White House staff as an administrative assistant in charge of coordinating military agencies.
www.supremecourthistory.org /02_history/subs_timeline/images_associates/074.html   (199 words)

  
 HARRY L. WALLACE PAPERS, 1955-1987
Sherman Minton (1890-1965) was a Supreme Court Justice from 1949 to 1956.
Minton, the son of John Evan and Emma (Livers) Minton, was born near Georgetown, Indiana (Floyd Co.).
Minton was elected to a Democratic Senate seat in the U. Congress (1934-1940), where he championed Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal policies.
www.indianahistory.org /library/manuscripts/collection_guides/m0702.html   (617 words)

  
 Thursday, November 7, 1940
Note: As mentioned in "A Bit Mixed", Sherman Minton was a bit down after his loss in the Senate after one term.
Minton had occasionally incurred Cash's editorial denunciation as Senator for his extreme stands against freedom of speech and the press.
And while Pennsylvania and Wisconsin were behaving in such fashion, Indiana was retiring brash Sherman Minton as Senator in favor of an obscure Republican country newspaper editor.
www.wjcash.org /WJCash6/Charlotte.News.Articles/11-7-40.htm   (1959 words)

  
 Madge Rutherford Minton
She had to cancel plans for an April marriage to Sherman Minton, then serving as a doctor for the U.S. Navy in San Diego.
Her flying career came to a halt in 1944 when she discovered she was pregnant with the first of three daughters.
Madge and Sherman Minton have traveled extensively, and lived in Pakistan for several years, while he served with A.I.D. Together they have researched and co-authored Venomous Reptiles, Giant Reptiles and Poisonous Insects.
www.athsalumni.org /Madgerutherfordminton.htm   (357 words)

  
 MINTON MSS.
Sherman Minton was born in Georgetown, Indiana; studied law at Indiana and Yale universities, and practiced law in Florida and Indiana.
Minton was Democratic Whip, 1940-1941, and chaired the Committee on Pensions in the 76th Congress.
Correspondents in the collection are primarily Minton's colleagues in the U.S. Congress, on Franklin Roosevelt's staff, and on the Supreme Court of the United States.
www.indiana.edu /~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/minton.html   (299 words)

  
 Sherman Minton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sherman Minton was born October 20, 1890 in Indiana, son of John Evan Minton and Emma (Livers) Minton.
After being defeated for reelection in 1940, Minton became an administrative assistant to the president before being appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in 1941.
Minton consistently supported government programs enacted in the name of national security, which limited civil liberties and individual rights.
www.phideltatheta.org /famousphis/politics/federal/minton.html   (224 words)

  
 Diverse writers make good team   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Minton was born in 1890 in Georgetown and died in 1965.
Many liberals in the 1950s were disappointed in Minton and heaped criticism on him, charging that he neglected individual rights.
Minton was more complex than they had anticipated.
www.iuinfo.indiana.edu /homepages/1114/text/diverse.htm   (554 words)

  
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Sherman Minton of Indiana talking to Major General Walter Krueger, commanding general, 2nd division (left) and with Lieutenant Colonel R. Graham, QMC, during visit of a Congressional delegation at the station hospital.
Sherman Minton at the controls of a Link Trainer during a congressional delegation visit to Randolph Field, Texas.
Sherman Minton; Rep. John J. Sparkman; Sen. Chan Gurney; Sen. Dennis Chavez; Sen. Harry S. Truman; Rep.
www.ou.edu /special/albertctr/archives/PhotoInventory/Thomasph1.htm   (4810 words)

  
 Murphy/Minton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sherman Minton : New Deal senator, cold war justice / Linda C. Gugin and James E. St. Clair Indianapolis : Indiana Historical Society, 1997.
Sherman Minton : Indiana's Supreme Court Justice / William Franklin Radcliff Indianapolis, Ind. : Guild Press of Indiana, 1996.
Sherman Minton and the cold war court / by Elizabeth Anne Hull Thesis (Ph.
indylaw.indiana.edu /glj/murphy.htm   (379 words)

  
 The 19th Century Shop:
Photograph of the Warren Court inscribed by Earl Warren to retiring justice Sherman Minton and signed by all nine justices.
Harry Truman nominated Sherman Minton to the Court in 1949.
This is the largest and most impressive Supreme Court photograph we have ever seen, and it is the first Supreme Court photograph we have encountered inscribed by the chief justice to one of his colleagues.
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 Minton v. Frank | TIME
Sherman Minton of New Albany, Ind. Boosted into the Senate three years ago with the help of his colleague, Frederick Van Nuys, he has now joined the rest of the Indiana Democratic machine in quietly cutting Senator Van Nuys' political throat.
Last month Senator Minton introduced a bill making it a felony punishable by two years in jail and $1,000 to $10,000 fine to publish a "known untruth." The convicted magazine or newspaper would be suspended from the mails for six months.
Minton revealed he had no notion of pressing for its passage.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,759814,00.html   (567 words)

  
 AddALL.com - Sherman Minton: New Deal Senator, Cold War Justice
Chief among the influences on Minton were his southern Indiana roots, his childhood adversity, his attraction to populism and its foremost proponent, William Jennings Bryan, and his involvement in the partisan politics of Indiana.
Minton's life, too, is testimony to the value of wit and humor.
The author's capture Minton's humor, warmth, and grace through their use of the frequent and lively correspondence Minton carried on with such friends as President Truman, Hugo L. Black, William O. Douglas, Fred M. Vinson, Felix Frankfurter, Earl Warren, Carl A. Hatch, and Lewis B. Schwellenbach.
www.addall.com /detail/0871951169.html   (306 words)

  
 Dennis v. United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Defendants' convictions for conspiring, through their participation in the Communist Party, to overthrow the U.S. government by force were not prohibited by the First Amendment.
Handed down as a 6-2 decision by the Court on June 4, 1951, the judgment and a plurality opinion was delivered by Chief Justice of the United States Fred Vinson, who was joined by Justices Stanley Forman Reed, Sherman Minton, and Harold H. Burton.
Separate concurring opinions were delivered by Justices Felix Frankfurter and Robert H. Jackson.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dennis_v._United_States   (357 words)

  
 Melissa Fay Greene, The Flygirl, LIFE Magazine
A life lived at full-throttle beats within every story she tells, while her sweet husband, Professor Sherman Minton, Jr., an internationally recognized herpetologist, medical zoologist, and professor, retired from the Indiana University School of Medicine, listens adoringly from the backseat, offering the occasional correction.
In her thirties, forties, and fifties, the joy that for Madge came close to equaling the thrill of flying — her passion in her twenties — was deep-sea diving, as Sherman’s assistant, in search of poisonous snakes.
Beautiful, fiery Madge Rutherford was a junior at Butler University in Indianapolis when she met graduate student Sherman Minton at a tea-party given by the Delta Gammas at Indiana University.
www.melissafaygreene.com /pages/flygirl.html   (2790 words)

  
 Murphy/Minton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sherman Minton : New Deal senator, cold war justice / Linda C. Gugin and James E. St. Clair Indianapolis : Indiana Historical Society, 1997.
Sherman Minton : Indiana's Supreme Court Justice / William Franklin Radcliff Indianapolis, Ind. : Guild Press of Indiana, 1996.
Sherman Minton and the cold war court / by Elizabeth Anne Hull Thesis (Ph.
www.iulaw.indy.indiana.edu /glj/murphy.htm   (379 words)

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