Leland Walker Carr (September 29, 1883 – May 30, 1969) was an American jurist.

Biography

Born on a farm in

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, Carr went to Michigan Normal State College in

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and then received his law degree, in 1906, from the

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. Carr then taught school and was superintendent of public schools. Carr served as assistant district attorney and as an assistant attorney general. Carr served as

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circuit court judge. Carr then served as a

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justice from 1945 to 1963 and served as chief justice. Carr was appointed as the successor to

Howard Wiest Howard Wiest (February 24, 1864 – September 16, 1945) was an American jurist. Although he neither graduated from high school nor attended law school, he read law, became Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, and went on to be "the Dean" ...

by Governor Harry F. Kelly in 1945. Carr died in

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at his home. He was the subject of a portrait executed in 1970 by Detroit artist Roy C. Gamble (1887 - 1972) which hangs at the Supreme Court. The portrait joins nine others by Gamble of Chief Justices.

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* 1883 births 1969 deaths People from Livingston County, Michigan Politicians from Lansing, Michigan Eastern Michigan University alumni University of Michigan Law School alumni Michigan Republicans Michigan state court judges Chief Justices of the Michigan Supreme Court 20th-century American judges Justices of the Michigan Supreme Court {{Michigan-state-judge-stub