David J. Brewer
| David Brewer | |
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| Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | |
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In office December 18, 1889 – March 28, 1910 |
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| Nominated by | Benjamin Harrison |
| Preceded by | Stanley Matthews |
| Succeeded by | Charles Hughes |
| Judge of the United States Circuit Court for the Eighth Circuit | |
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In office March 31, 1884 – December 18, 1889 |
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| Nominated by | Chester Arthur |
| Preceded by | George McCrary |
| Succeeded by | Henry Caldwell |
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| Born |
June 20, 1837 Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (now İzmir, Turkey) |
| Died | March 28, 1910 (aged 72) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education |
Wesleyan University Yale University (BA) Albany Law School (LLB) |
David Josiah Brewer (June 20, 1837 – March 28, 1910) was an American jurist and an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court for 20 years.
Brewer was born to Emilia Field Brewer and Rev. Josiah Brewer, who at the time of his birth were running a school for Greeks in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire; Emilia Brewer's brother Stephen Johnson Field, a future Supreme Court colleague of Brewer, was living with the couple at the time. His parents returned to the United States in 1838 and settled in Connecticut. Brewer attended college at Wesleyan University (1851–1854), where he was a member of the Mystical 7 Society, and he afterward attended Yale University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1856. While at Yale, Brewer was a classmate of Henry Billings Brown and was "greatly influenced by the political scientist-protestant minister Theodore Dwight Woolsey." After graduation, Brewer read law for one year in the office of his uncle David Dudley Field, then enrolled at Albany Law School in Albany, New York, graduating in 1858.
Upon graduating from law school, Brewer moved to Kansas City, Missouri and after attempting to start a law practice, left for Colorado in search of gold, returning empty-handed in 1859 to nearby Leavenworth, Kansas. He was named Commissioner of the Federal Circuit Court in Leavenworth in 1861. He left that court to become a judge to the Probate and Criminal Courts in Leavenworth in 1862, and then changed courts again to become a judge to the First Judicial District of Kansas in 1865. He left that position in 1869 and became city attorney of Leavenworth. He was then elected to the Kansas Supreme Court in 1870, where he served for 14 years.
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