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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Trayton L. Lathrop |
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Madison, Wisconsin , United States |
| Email | None |
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00, 1923
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| Died | April 03, 1998
(75 years)
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| Contributor | Ashley |
| Last Modifed | Ashley
Feb 26, 2013 11:55pm |
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| Info | When Trayton Lathrop died, on April 3, 1998, after a gallant struggle with a deadly disease, it marked the last of many courageous battles he fought.
From 1943 through 1946, he served in the United States Navy during World War II. Even as he contributed to the defeat of the Axis Powers, he protested segregation within the Navy. In his blue, naval officer's uniform and with his wife, Ruth, he attended all-Negro churches as a symbol of his support of the struggle that was later to engage such figures as Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the years to come, he continued his determined campaign to make the world, and particularly the legal world, a better place as best he could define what a better place would be.
Trayton Lathrop was a man who loved the law. As a lawyer, he wrote scholarly articles illustrating the unconstitutionality of restrictive covenants based on race. He also protested against a bar association that required people to be members in order to practice law. He regarded that requirement as a restriction of freedom and a diminution in the lawyer's ability to challenge governmental authority. And he pursued his protest all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Trayton Lathrop was no less zealous in pursuing smaller causes of ordinary people who followed more sequestered paths. They could not have had a more zealous champion in the lists of legal battles.
But Trayton Lathrop was far more than a warrior. He was a man who gave more to his community than he took from it.
He was active in his church, serving in numerous capacities, including that of an elder. He was a founding member of the Madison West Rotary Club, holding the office, among others, of president of that club. He went on to serve as district governor of Rotary District 625 and became active in Rotary affairs internationally.
Trayton Lathrop, like another lawyer, could be described as "a man for all seasons." He was a vigorous square-dancer and a man of near universal interests. He enjoyed walking the fields and hills of his farm, as Aldo Leopold might have.
This firm, to which he gave his name, has been diminished by his passing. This community--indeed, mankind--has been diminished by his passing.
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