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Willis Van Devanter, at twenty-four, left his father's law firm in Indiana and headed west to seek his fortune in the wild.

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Willis Van Devanter (April 17, – February 8, ) was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Willis Van Devanter (April 17, – February 8, ) was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States..

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Willis Van Devanter, the son of a lawyer, was born in Marion on 17th April, 1859.

After graduating from Cincinnati Law School he worked for his father's law firm.

In 1884 he moved to Cheyenne where he became a railroad attorney. A member of the Republican Party he became chief justice of the territorial Supreme Court.

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William McKinley appointed Van Devanter as assistant attorney general (1897-1903) and Theodore Roosevelt made him a federal judge (1903-10). In 1911 President William Taft appointed appointed him to the Supreme Court where he soon developed a reputation for his conservative views.

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Roosevelt, the Democratic Party candidate, was elected as president in 1932. 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.

On 2nd February, 1937, Franklin D.

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