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Mahlon Pitney

Mahlon Pitney
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Mahlon Pitney - Icon File
Mahlon Pitney - Portrait
Mahlon Pitney - Photograph
Personal Information
Born: 
Friday, February 5, 1858
Died: 
Tuesday, December 9, 1924
Childhood Location: 
New Jersey
Childhood Surroundings: 
New Jersey
Position: 
Associate Justice
Seat: 
9
Nominated By: 
Taft
Commissioned on: 
Tuesday, March 12, 1912
Sworn In: 
Sunday, March 17, 1912
Left Office: 
Saturday, December 30, 1922
Reason For Leaving: 
Disabled
Home: 
New Jersey
Birth Place: 
New Jersey
Biography: 

A classmate of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton, Mahlon Pitney served in Republican political office in Congress and in New Jersey. Though he aspired to be governor, he was appointed to the state's highest court ending his electoral ambitions. He served on that court for 20 years, eventually to become its chancellor. He was the last of President William Howard Taft's appointments to the Court. Taft himself was later appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court on which Pitney still served and criticized him as a weak member.

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