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Sinclair Lewis and Thompson during their honeymoon caravan trip in England, 1928. Thompson boarded a ship to London in June 1920 to become a foreign correspondent. Beginning by submitting articles to the International News Service (INS), she went to Ireland in August and was the last to interview the Sinn Féin Irish independence leader Terence MacSwiney.
William H. Crawford: 6th United States Secretary of the Treasury; In office October 6, 1814 – October 21, 1816: President: James Madison: Preceded by: George W. Campbell: Succeeded by: William H. Crawford: 1st Reporter of Decisions of the United States Supreme Court; In office 1790–1800: Preceded by: Position established: Succeeded by ...
After Justice Alexander Harman retired, the General Assembly elected Judge Thompson to the Supreme Court of Virginia, effective February 1, 1980. Justice Thompson retired from active service on the Court three years later, and was succeeded by Justice John Charles Thomas. Death and legacy
The court is composed of seven elected justices, each of whom serves a six-year term after winning a nonpartisan election. [2] Justices, like other Oregon state court judges, must be United States citizens, Oregon residents for at least three years, and lawyers admitted to practice in the state of Oregon. [2]
Thompson v. Oklahoma, 487 U.S. 815 (1988), was the first case since the moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in the United States in which the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of a minor on grounds of "cruel and unusual punishment."
He graduated from the Lawrence Business College in 1891. He was the official court reporter of the twenty-second judicial district of Kansas from 1891 to 1894, and studied law; he was admitted to the bar in 1894, commencing practice in Seneca; he was clerk of the Kansas Court of Appeals in Topeka and practiced law there from 1897 to 1901.
Former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court William B. Rodman: 1836: Former justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court Aaron A. F. Seawell: 1884: Former justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court Susie Sharp: Grad. Law: Former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, first female chief justice James E. Shepherd
Smith Thompson (January 17, 1768 – December 18, 1843) was a US Secretary of the Navy from 1819 to 1823 and a US Supreme Court Associate Justice from 1823 to his death. [ 1 ] Early life and the law