Wiley Blount Rutledge

Supreme Court Justice

Birthday July 20, 1894

Birth Sign Cancer

Birthplace Cloverport, KY

DEATH DATE Sep 10, 1949 (55)

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About

A Supreme Court Justice of the United States who was strongly liberal.

Before Fame

He was part of the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity while studying law at University of Colorado Law School in Boulder.

Trivia

He was one of the first justices to believe the Fourteenth Amendment meant that the protection of the Bill of Rights was also state law and not just federal law.

Family Life

He was married to Annabel Person, with whom he fathered three children: Mary Lou, Jean Ann, and Neal.

Associated With

He was nominated to the Supreme Court by Franklin D. Roosevelt.