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Nation's oldest federal judge dies at 104
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Jan 24, 2012 02:11pm |
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| Author | msnbc.com staff and news services |
| News Date | Tuesday, January 24, 2012 08:10:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WICHITA, Kan. -- U.S. Senior District Judge Wesley Brown, the nation’s oldest sitting federal judge, has died at age 104.
Brown died Monday evening at Larksfield Place, an assisted-living center where he had lived for several years, Judge Monti Belot told The Wichita Eagle.
“There comes a time, and he was just ready,” Belot, who also sits on the federal bench in Wichita, told The Eagle.
Brown was appointed as a federal district judge in 1962 by then-President John F. Kennedy. In 1979, Brown officially took senior status, a type of semi-retirement. But he continued to carry a full load of cases for the next three decades. It was only in recent years that he began to lighten his workload. |
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