Emile Henry Lacombe

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Emile Henry Lacombe January 29, 1846 - November 28, 1924 was a judge in the United States.

Lacombe obtained undergraduate and law degrees from Columbia College in New York City and engaged in the private practice of law in New York for many years. He also served as a New York City Assistant Corporation Counsel from 1874 to 1884 and then as Corporation Counsel (the city's chief attorney) from 1884 to 1887.

In 1887, President Grover Cleveland appointed Lacombe to serve on the United States Circuit Court for the Second Circuit, headquartered in New York. In 1891, after Congress passed the Evarts Act establishing the United States Courts of Appeals, Lacombe's judgeship was reassigned to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Lacombe served as an appellate judge on the Second Circuit until 1916, when he retired and returned to private practice. He died in 1924 and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Morristown, New Jersey.

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This article incorporates text obtained from the public domain Biographical Directory of Federal Judges compiled by the Federal Judicial Center.