Hiram Heartsill Ragon was a United States representative from Arkansas and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas.
14 Facts About Heartsill Ragon
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Heartsill Ragon received a Bachelor of Laws in 1908 from the Washington and Lee University School of Law.
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Heartsill Ragon was admitted to the bar in 1908 and entered private practice in Clarksville, Arkansas from 1908 to 1923.
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Heartsill Ragon was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1911 to 1913.
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Heartsill Ragon was district attorney in Clarksville from 1916 to 1920.
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Heartsill Ragon was Secretary of the Democratic Arkansas state convention in 1918, Chairman of the Democratic Arkansas state convention in 1920, and a delegate to the 1920 Democratic National Convention.
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Heartsill Ragon was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives of the 68th United States Congress and to the five succeeding Congresses and served from March 4,1923, until his resignation effective June 16,1933, having been appointed to the federal bench.
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Heartsill Ragon was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 12,1933, and received his commission on May 17,1933.
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Heartsill Ragon's service terminated on September 15,1940, due to his death in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
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Heartsill Ragon was interred in Forest Park Cemetery in Fort Smith.
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In 1939, Ragon authored an opinion in United States v Miller, 26 F Supp.
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Heartsill Ragon was in reality, in favor of the gun control law and was part of an elaborate plan to give the government a sure win when they appealed to the supreme court which they promptly did.
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Heartsill Ragon knew that Miller would not pay for an attorney to argue the case at the supreme court and so the government would have a sure win because the other side would not show up.
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Heartsill Ragon's opinion was reversed by the United States Supreme Court in United States v Miller.