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John Hessin Clarke of Ohio was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916, to succeed Associate Justice Charles Evans Hughes, who had resigned from the Supreme Court to make his close but unsuccessful race for the presidency. He had served two years as United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio.
Born September 18, 1857, in New Lisbon, Ohio, he received his bachelor's degree Phi Beta Kappa and Master of Arts degree from Western Case College and studied law under the tutelage of his father, a Common Pleas Judge. He entered law practice in his home town, and later moved to Youngstown and then to Cleveland.
Among Justice Clarke's best known opinions while on the Supreme Court are Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (1919) and American Column and Lumber Company v. United States, 257 U.S. 377 (1921).
On September 1, 1922, Justice Clarke resigned from the Court to work for the entry of the United States into the League of Nations. He died March 22, 1945, not long before the United Nations came into being at the San Francisco Conference. |
