Henry White Edgerton
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Henry White Edgerton (October 20, 1888 - February 23, 1970) was an American jurist who served on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Edgerton was born in Rush Center, Kansas. He received an A.B. from Cornell University in 1910, and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1914. He then entered private practice as an attorney, first in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1914, and then in Boston from 1915 until 1916.
Edgerton was a professor at Cornell University Law School from 1916 until 1918, when he returned to private practice in Boston. In 1921, he took a teaching position at George Washington University until 1928, and then taught at Cornell University until 1937.
While at Cornell, Edgerton served as Special Assistant to the United States Attorney General from 1934 until 1935, during Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term as president.
Edgerton was then nominated by Roosevelt on November 26, 1937 to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, to a seat vacated by Duncan Lawrence Groner. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on December 9, 1937, and received his commission on December 15, 1937. Edgerton then served as Chief Judge of the court from 1955 until 1958, and assumed senior status on April 22, 1963. He served on the D.C. Circuit until his death in Washington, D.C. on February 23, 1970.
