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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaSherman MINTON
(1890-1965)
Senate Years of Service:
1935-1941Party: DemocratMINTON, Sherman, a Senator
from Indiana; born in Georgetown, Floyd County, Ind., October 20,
1890; attended the public schools; graduated from the law
department of Indiana University at Bloomington in 1915, and from
Yale University in 1916; admitted to the bar in 1915 and commenced
practice in New Albany, Ind.; during the First World War served as
a captain in the Motor Transport Corps 1917-1919, serving overseas
one year; captain in the Infantry section, Officers’ Reserve
Corps 1919-1943; moved to Miami, Fla., in 1925 and continued the
practice of law; returned to New Albany, Ind., in 1928 and resumed
the practice of law; public counselor of Indiana 1933-1934; elected
as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from January
3, 1935, to January 3, 1941; Democratic whip 1939-1941; chairman,
Committee on Pensions (Seventy-sixth Congress); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1940; served as administrative
assistant in the Executive Office of the President 1941; judge of
the circuit court of appeals for the seventh circuit 1941-1949;
appointed by President Harry S. Truman as an Associate Justice of
the United States Supreme Court, taking the oath of office October
12, 1949, and served until October 15, 1956, when he resigned due
to ill health; was a resident of New Albany, Ind., where he died
April 9, 1965; interment in Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Gugin, Linda C., and James E. St. Clair. Sherman
Minton: New Deal Senator, Cold War Justice. Indianapolis:
Indiana Historical Society, 1997; Atkinson, David N. “From
New Deal Liberal to Supreme Court Conservative.”
Washington University Law Quarterly (1975): 361-94.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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