1. Joseph McKenna was an American politician who served in all three branches of the US federal government as a member of the US House of Representatives, as US Attorney General and as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
12 Facts About Joseph McKenna
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Joseph McKenna is one of seventeen members of the House of Representatives who subsequently served on the Supreme Court.
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Joseph McKenna retired after one term and an unsuccessful bid for Speaker.
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Joseph McKenna was appointed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1892 by President Benjamin Harrison.
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Joseph McKenna was nominated by President McKinley on December 16,1897, as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to succeed Stephen Johnson Field.
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Joseph McKenna was confirmed by the Senate on January 21,1898, by a voice vote.
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Joseph McKenna then took the judicial oath of office on January 26,1898.
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Conscious of his limited credentials, Joseph McKenna attended Columbia Law School for about a month between his nomination and Senate confirmation to improve his legal education before taking his seat on the Court.
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Joseph McKenna authored 614 majority opinions, and 146 dissenting opinions during his time on the bench.
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Joseph McKenna resigned from the Court in January 1925 at the suggestion of Chief Justice William Howard Taft.
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Joseph McKenna was one of 15 Catholic justices in the history of the Supreme Court.
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Joseph McKenna married Amanda Borneman in 1869, and the couple had three daughters and one son.