James Clark McReynolds
Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, 1914-1941
James Clark McReynolds served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1914 to 1941. Born in Elkton, Kentucky, McReynolds practiced law in Tennessee after graduating from the University Of Virginia School of Law. He served as the assistant attorney general during President Theodore Roosevelt's Administration. After President Woodrow Wilson took office in 1913, he appointed McReynolds as his first attorney general. The following year, Wilson nominated McReynolds to the Supreme Court, to seat vacated by Associate Justice Horace Harmon Lurton. McReynolds assumed senior status in 1941 and passed away on August 24, 1946.
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Archival Materials
James C. McReynolds papers, University of Virginia Law School, Charlottesville, Virginia.
