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George Shiras Jr. (January 26, 1832 – August 2, 1924) was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1892 to 1903. At that time of his appointment, he had 37 years of private legal practice but had never judged a case.
George Shiras, Jr. (born January 26, 1832, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died August 2, 1924, Pittsburgh) was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1892–1903). Shiras was admitted to the bar in 1855, and in 25 years of practice he built up a wide reputation in corporation law.
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George Shiras, Jr., 1892-1903. GEORGE SHIRAS, JR., was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 26, 1832. He began his college education at Ohio University, and after two years transferred to Yale, where he received his undergraduate degree in 1853.
Justice George Shiras, Jr. joined the U.S. Supreme Court on October 10, 1892, replacing Justice Joseph Bradley. Shiras was born on January 26, 1832 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He initially studied at Ohio University, but he eventually transferred to Yale, from which he graduated in 1853.
George Shiras engaged in the private practice of law for 40 years before his appointment to the High Court. He had no experience in public office and charted an independent course once he was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Benjamin Harrison.
George Shiras, Jr., was appointed to the Supreme Court by benjamin harrison in 1892 and served for slightly more than a decade. A native of Pittsburgh and a Yale graduate, Shiras had maintained an independent, yet prosperous and varied law practice for nearly forty years before his appointment.
George Shiras Jr. served on the U.S. Supreme Court as an associate justice from 1892 to 1903. Plucked by political necessity at the age of sixty from his highly successful law practice, Shiras, who had never been a judge or politician, brought a lawyerly, pragmatic perspective to the Court.
