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	Willis Van Devanter
		Willis Van Devanter was born in Indiana on April 17, 1859.
		Van Devanter was a member of the Wyoming Territory legislature, and was also a member of the Territory's Supreme Court.
		Van Devanter was firmly opposed to increased governmental regulation of the economy.
	www.michaelariens.com /ConLaw/justices/vandevanter.htm (379 words)

	Willis Van Devanter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Van Devanter did not write quickly and, as a result, was assigned fewer opinions of the court than many of the other justices.
		Van Devanter was replaced by Justice Hugo Black, appointed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
		Van Devanter's personal and judicial papers are archived at the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, where they are available for research.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Willis_Van_Devanter (453 words)

	Van Devanter, Willis: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
		As an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1910 to 1937, Willis Van Devanter was considered the leading conservative justice of the era.
		Van Devanter's background in education, politics, and the law brought him to the bench, first as chief justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court and then as a U.S. circuit judge.
		Born on April 17, 1859, in Marion, Indiana, Van Devanter was the first of eight children born...
	law.enotes.com /wests-law-encyclopedia/van-devanter-willis (183 words)

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		Willis Van Devanter was born on April 17, 1859, in Marion, Indiana.
		Van Devanter served as a member of the commission that revised the statutes of the Wyoming Territory in 1886.
		Van Devanter was only thirty years old when, in 1889, President Benjamin Harrison appointed him Chief Justice of the Wyoming Territorial Supreme Court.
	supct.law.cornell.edu /supct/justices/histBio.html (20320 words)

	WEDDINGS; Susan Van Devanter, J. P. Newell - New York Times
		Susan Earling Van Devanter, the daughter of Ann C. Townsend of Washington and Willis Van Devanter of Poolesville, Md., was married in Washington yesterday to John Philip Newell Jr., a son of Irene P. Newell of Greenwich, Conn., and the late John P. Newell.
		Van Devanter, who is 31 years old and keeping her name, is a health-care marketing consultant in Washington.
		The bride is a great-granddaughter of the late Willis Van Devanter, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE7DA123AF932A15755C0A964958260 (208 words)

	Greatest Heroes Who Fought FDR’s New Deal by Jim Powell
		President Theodore Roosevelt nominated Van Devanter to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
		Van Devanter retired from the Supreme Court in June 2, 1937, and he died at his Maryland farm, February 8, 1941.
		Van Devanter, Sutherland, Butler and McReynolds, sometimes joined by others, had done a splendid job articulating vital principles of economic liberty in the worst of times.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig4/powell-jim3.html (3481 words)

	Willis Van Devanter
		Willis Van Devanter, the son of a lawyer, was born in Marion on 17th April, 1859.
		Over the next few years Van Devanter and the other justices who were supporters of the Republican Party, ruled against the National Recovery Administration (NRA), the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) and ten other New Deal laws.
		Van Devanter, probably the most conservative of all the justices, announced his intention to resign.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAdevanter.htm (550 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Willis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		An authority on the brain and the nervous system, he discovered the 11th cranial nerve and a circle of arteries at the base of the brain (the circle of Willis).
		Van Devanter, Willis, 1859-1941, American jurist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1910-37), b.
		WIN OR LOSE, WILLIS `EXCITED': The Marlins' Dontrelle Willis, among the favorites to win the NL Cy Young award, just wants to see how it plays out, 'regardless of how it ends up' today.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Willis (607 words)

	Van Devanter, Willis - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Van Devanter, Willis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A staunch conservative, Van Devanter was a bitter opponent of the New Deal until his retirement.
		Born in Marion, Indiana, Van Devanter was educated at Asbury University and received a law degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1881.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Van+Devanter,+Willis (160 words)

	Van Devanter, Willis - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		VAN DEVANTER, WILLIS [Van Devanter, Willis], 1859-1941, American jurist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1910-37), b.
		Marion, Ind. He practiced law (1881-84) in Indiana and, after he removed to Wyoming, became (1889) chief justice of the Wyoming supreme court.
		Appointed to the Supreme Court by President Taft, Van Devanter was one of the quartet of conservative justices who opposed most of the New Deal legislation.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-vand1evan.html (326 words)

	WUSA - Print Story
		Last Updated: 10/27/2005 11:39:46 AM Willis Van Devanter says he passed the field sobriety tests and blew a.03 on the breathalyzer.
		Van Devanter, who is also the grandson of U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Willis Van Devanter, says it was a life changing experience.
		Because of his family's legacy with the law, Willis Van Devanter says he's not against the measure to which he fell victim.
	www.wusa9.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=43983 (125 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Vanche to Van de zande
		Van Cortlandt, Philip (1749-1831) — of New York.
		Van Der Hoeven, Eugene — of North Dakota.
		Van der Horst, Arnoldus (1748-1815) — of South Carolina.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/vanche-vandewater.html (1839 words)

	TIME.com: Justice Retired -- May 31, 1937 -- Page 1
		Van Devanter then took up his composition, prefixed it with "My dear Mr.
		Suter arrived the Justice chatted with him amiably for a few minutes, handed him a copy of the letter, told him it could be released as soon as the original had reached the White House.
		Van Devanter's retirement on June 2 (day after the Supreme Court completes its term).
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,847856,00.html (715 words)

	Milne Bay Air Strikes April 1943 and Liberty Ships
		He was mobilized to New Guinea in February 1943, and arrived at "Milne Bay" aboard the "Willis Van Devanter" on the 1
		The 'Willis Van Devanter' was scrapped in 1967 at Kearny, NJ Milne Bay was an awful place.
		Van Outhoorn suffered damage from near misses by high - level bombers, had 8 killed and 20 wounded, and was succoured by Whyalla, who did a fine job with anti - aircraft fire.
	harryprosser.customer.netspace.net.au /PS01/PS01_009.htm (2306 words)

	Is Social Security Constitutional? by John Attarian
		Four Justices, George Sutherland, Willis Van Devanter, Pierce Butler, and James McReynolds, believed that the Constitution should be interpreted conservatively, according to the intent of the Framers.
		In their view, the federal government could not intervene in economic or local matters, and the Tenth Amendment – "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people" – narrowly confined its legitimate activities.
		On May 18, Van Devanter announced his imminent retirement, enabling Roosevelt to nominate a Justice.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig3/attarian7.html (1527 words)

	DaVinci: Reference> Biography> W> Willis
		McFadden, Willis lead SEC award winners2TheAdvocate, LA - 7 hours agoOle Miss linebacker Patrick Willis is SEC Defensive Player of the Year.
		Ruby G. and Barbara Ann Willis to Lucy JA and Benjamin M. Fillmore Jr., 21.0...
		Scheduled to fight are Derek "The Black Lion" Edwards and Carl Willis, Ijeoma "The Praise" Egbunine and Veronica...
	www.bluegrassdavinci.com /ODP/Reference/Biography/W/Willis (292 words)

	Law.com - The Case That Could Have Altered 'Bush v. Gore'
		Normally Willis Van Devanter, the justice assigned to hear such appeals from that circuit, the 8th, would have considered the case on his own, but he was vacationing in New Hampshire and could not be reached.
		By the time of the Aug. 1 hearing, Van Devanter had been located, and he too was on hand to consider the case.
		Pitney and Van Devanter agreed the dispute over the electors raised a federal question.
	www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1099217129289 (847 words)

	The Indiana Law Blog: Ind. Law - Justice Willis Van Devanter featured in Marion paper today
		Justice Van Devanter is a man who plays an important role in the history of the court, though you can't find it adequately reflected in the opinions written by him," [Justice Felix] Frankfurter said, "because he wrote so few.
		But Van Devanter was a man of great experience.
		He was then made a circuit judge, a United States circuit judge and a member of the Supreme Court in 1910.
	indianalawblog.com /archives/2005/11/ind_law_justice_1.html (541 words)

	Willis Van Devanter - One Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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		Willis Van Devanter (April 17, 1859 - February 8, 1941), associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, January 3, 1911 to June 2, 1937.
		Born in Marion, Indiana, he graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Law in 1881.
	www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Willis_Van_Devanter (310 words)

	Hugo Black
		When Robinson died of a heart attack while the Senate was deliberating the bill, the bill lacked a sponsor powerful enough to obtain its adoption by the Senate.
		In the meantime, Justice Willis Van Devanter retired, for Congress had adopted a law giving pensions to retired federal judges.
		Black, who strongly supported FDR's court reorganization plan, was nominated by FDR to replace Van Devanter.
	www.michaelariens.com /ConLaw/justices/black.htm (744 words)

	The Achilles Heel of the Constitution: Lessons from Archival Hist, Campus News (Bowdoin)
		Van Devanter was “the nastiest person ever to sit on the supreme court.” He was “bigoted” and “breathtakingly lazy.”
		But Van Devanter was also one of the so-called Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the conservative justices who opposed F.D.R. The court-packing plan was nothing short of a Constitutional crises, Hutchinson said, and Knox’s memoir is valuable for the inside look at the court it grants, particularly during such a crisis.
		For Hutchinson, another pleasure in publishing the book was shedding light on the lives of two of countless African Americans who devoted their lives working for government officials, but did so in relative obscurity.
	www.bowdoin.edu /news/archives/1bowdoincampus/001217.shtml (1101 words)

	Owen Roberts
		Roberts was a conservative justice but was more open-minded than George Sutherland, Willis Van Devanter and Pierce Butler.
		Roosevelt suggested that the age was a major problem as six of the judges were over 70 (Charles Hughes, Willis Van Devanter, James McReynolds, Louis Brandeis and George Sutherland).
		Then Willis Van Devanter, probably the most conservative of the justices, announced his intention to resign.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USArobertsO.htm (592 words)

	Library Associates Newsletter February 1994
		Willis Van Devanter (left), expert appraiser, and George M. Barringer (center), head of library's Special Collections, are joined by participants in library's first appraisal day
		The Library Associates sponsored a new kind of event in the fall of 1993: a Saturday morning set aside for Associates to bring in materials for a free appraisal.
		A team of experts including Willis Van Devanter, who has done many appraisals for gifts made to the library, Thomas Truxton Moebs (that mellifluously-named dealer in things American), and Donald Smith, a local print dealer, joined library staff members in giving verbal dollar appraisals and advice concerning disposition of various items.
	www.library.georgetown.edu /advancement/newsletter/34/programs34.htm (442 words)

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		Driving home from a dinner in 1997, Willis Van Devanter, an academic and grandson of a U.S. Supreme Court justice, was stopped at a Washington, D.C. roadblock.
		An officer determined that Van Devanter had a BAC of just.03%, less than one-third of D.C.'s legal limit at the time.
		The police had Van Devanter handcuffed and placed under arrest, telling him that D.C. had "zero tolerance" for any drinking and driving -- even if the driver did not technically violate the District's DWI law.
	www.getmadd.com /VirtualProhibition.htm (1823 words)

	AllRefer.com - Willis Van Devanter (Supreme Court, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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		Willis Van Devanter[van dEvan´tur] Pronunciation Key, 1859–1941, American jurist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1910–37), b.
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	the houston conservative: Editorial Page: Needed By Supreme Court: Private Investigator to Find Lost Founding Document, ...
		The Hughes court was a four-two-three court with four staunch conservatives, derisively nicknamed the “Four Horsemen,” Willis Van Devanter, James C. McReynolds, Pierce Butler and George Sutherland.
		Although the Democrat Congress balked at the suggestion and it has been generally viewed as one of Roosevelt’s biggest mistakes, it was sufficient threat in the eyes of the moderate justices for them to acquiesce to the policies of the Roosevelt administration.
		Although the Four Horsemen remained steadfast, their power was broken, and shortly thereafter Willis Van Devanter announced his retirement.
	houstonconservative.com /2005/06/needed-by-supreme-court-private.html (1247 words)

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		Newly appointed Assistant Attorney General Willis Van Devanter rendered his decision on November 23, 1897.
		The Indiana Miami, he ruled, were no longer under the protection of federal law and had not been since 1881, and therefore they fall under the same category as those under the General Allotment Act.
		Assistant Attorney General Van Devanter further ruled that the federal government could not assist them.
	users.ipfw.edu /wellerw/finalresearchpaper.doc (4754 words)

	The Library 160 Years Ago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A recent gift from Willis Van Devanter included a copy of the first volume of The Baltimore Literary Monument, which in its number for February, 1839, included a two-page account of Georgetown by an unnamed author.
		Part of that account deals with the library; its dated style and wording notwithstanding, the sentiments are such as might do us proud today.
		The library, which contains 15,000 volumes, is open to the curiosity of the pupils, and is deficient in very few of the works of modern writers that are worth preserving: reviews, periodicals, pamphlets, papers, and every variety of miscellaneous effusions, selected with scrupulous caution by the Faculty, are offered to the perusal of the students."
	www.library.georgetown.edu /advancement/newsletter/53/160years53.htm (152 words)

	The Constitution and the New Deal: The Independent Review: The Independent Institute
		On the other hand, justices perceived as hostile to the New Deal—specifically Willis Van Devanter, James McReynolds, George Sutherland, and Pierce Butler—have been systematically denigrated as the Four Horsemen.
		However inaccurate the image of Van Devanter, McReynolds, Sutherland, and Butler fashioned by New Dealers, it nonetheless has long marked their place in history.
		Too many historians unthinkingly continue to spout a line that presents a skewed appraisal of these justices and their commitment to economic liberty.
	www.independent.org /tii/content/pubs/review/books/tir64_white.html (1591 words)

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