Smith Hickenlooper (February 13, 1880 – December 22, 1933) was an American attorney and jurist who served as a

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of the

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. He was previously a United States district judge of the

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Early life and education

Born in

Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wit ...

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, Hickenlooper was the son of Maria Lloyd (Smith) and

Andrew Hickenlooper Andrew Hickenlooper (August 10, 1837 – May 12, 1904) was an Ohioan civil engineer, politician, industrialist, and a Union Army lieutenant colonel of artillery and engineers. In recognition of his service, in 1866, he was nominated and conf ...

, who was a civil engineer, politician, industrialist, and a Union Army lieutenant colonel. He graduated from Woodward High School, and received a

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degree from the

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in 1901 and a

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from Harvard Law School in 1904. While at the University of Cincinnati, Smith, along with his brother Andrew, founded Sigma Sigma in 1898.

Career

He was in private practice in Cincinnati from 1904 to 1918, also serving as a member of the Cincinnati Board of Education from 1908 to 1909, and as a member of the board of directors of the

from 1910 to 1916. He was an assistant prosecuting attorney of Hamilton County, Ohio from 1916 to 1918, but left to join the

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during

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, serving as a private in a field artillery unit in 1918. Hickenlooper returned to Ohio before the end of 1918 and served as a judge on the Superior Court of Cincinnati from 1918 to 1923.

Federal judicial service

Hickenlooper was nominated by President

Warren G. Harding Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular sitting U.S. presidents. A ...

on March 3, 1923, to a seat on the

vacated by Judge John Weld Peck. He was confirmed by the

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on March 3, 1923, and received his commission the same day. His service terminated on January 7, 1929, due to his elevation to the Sixth Circuit. Hickenlooper was nominated by President Calvin Coolidge on December 6, 1928, to a seat on the

vacated by Judge Maurice H. Donahue. He was confirmed by the Senate on December 17, 1928, and received his commission the same day. His service terminated on December 22, 1933, due to his death in Cincinnati. He was interred in

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in Cincinnati.

Personal life

Hickenlooper married Anna Bailey Wright of Cincinnati on October 18, 1910. His grandson is U.S. Senator and former governor

John Hickenlooper John Wright Hickenlooper Jr. (; born February 7, 1952) is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Colorado since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 42nd governor of Colorado from 2011 to 20 ...

. He is also related to pianist

Olga Samaroff Olga Samaroff (August 8, 1880May 17, 1948) was an American pianist, music critic, and teacher. Among her teachers was Charles-Valentin Alkan's son, Élie-Miriam Delaborde. Her second husband was the conductor Leopold Stokowski. Samaroff was ...

, (née Lucy Mary Olga Agnes Hickenlooper).

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