OVERVIEW:

FULL NAME:
David Josiah Brewer

BORN:
June 20, 1837
Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(now İzmir, Turkey)

DIED:
March 28, 1910 (age 72)
Washington, DC

EDUCATION:
Yale University (AB, 1856)
Albany Law School (LLB)
Read Law (1857)

POLITICAL PARTY:
Republican 

HIGHLIGHTS:
1858-1861:
Practiced Law in  Leavenworth, Kansas
1861-1862:
Commissioner, U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Kansas
1862-1865:
Judge, Leavenworth County (Kansas) Probate and Criminal Courts
1865-1869:
Judge, Kansas District Court, First Judicial District
1869-1870:
City Attorney for Leavenworth, Kansas
1870-1884:
Justice, Kansas Supreme Court
1884-1890:
Judge, U.S. Circuit Court for the Eighth  Circuit
1890-1910:
Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court 

RESOURCES:
Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
Congressional Quarterly
Oyez
Supreme Court Historical Society
Wikipedia 

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