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Scott Wilson (January 11, 1870 – October 22, 1942) was a
United States circuit judge In the United States, federal judges are judges who serve on courts established under Article Three of the U.S. Constitution. They include the chief justice and the associate justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, the circuit judges of the U.S. ...
of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.


Education and career

Born on January 11, 1870, in Falmouth,
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, Wilson attended the
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and then received an Artium Baccalaureus degree in 1892 from
Bates College Bates College () is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine. Anchored by the Historic Quad, the campus of Bates totals with a small urban campus which includes 33 Victorian Houses as some of the dormitories. It maintains of nature p ...
. He read law in 1895, under the supervision of Joseph W. Symonds, and entered private practice in
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, Maine from 1895 to 1918. He was city solicitor of Deering, Maine in 1899. He was an assistant county attorney of
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, Maine from 1900 to 1902. He was city solicitor of Portland from 1902 to 1905. He was the
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from 1913 to 1914. He was a justice of the
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from 1918 to 1929, serving as chief justice from 1925 to 1929.


Federal judicial service

Wilson was nominated by President
Herbert Hoover Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American politician who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 and a member of the Republican Party, holding office during the onset of the Gr ...
on September 9, 1929, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit vacated by Judge
Charles Fletcher Johnson Charles Fletcher Johnson (February 14, 1859 – February 15, 1930) was a United States senator from Maine and a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Johnson was nominated by President Woodrow W ...
. He was confirmed by the
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on October 2, 1929, and received his commission the same day. He was a member of the
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(now the Judicial Conference of the United States) in 1939. He assumed
senior status Senior status is a form of semi- retirement for United States federal judges. To qualify, a judge in the federal court system must be at least 65 years old, and the sum of the judge's age and years of service as a federal judge must be at leas ...
on March 31, 1940. His service terminated on October 22, 1942, due to his death in Portland.


See also

* List of Bates College people * Herbert Hoover judicial appointments


References


Sources

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