Rufus W Peckham was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court from 1895 to 1909, and is the most recent Democratic nominee approved by a Republican-majority Senate.
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13 Facts About Rufus Peckham
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Rufus Peckham was known for his strong use of substantive due process to invalidate regulations of business and property.
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Rufus Peckham then returned to private legal practice and served as counsel to the City of Albany, until being elected as a trial judge on the New York Supreme Court in 1883.
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In 1886, Rufus Peckham was elected to the New York Court of Appeals, the highest court in the state.
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Rufus Peckham was active in local Democratic politics, and served as a New York delegate to the 1876 Democratic National Convention.
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Rufus Peckham was a confidant to such tycoons as J Pierpont Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and John D Rockefeller.
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Rufus Peckham's brother Wheeler was a nominee to the US Supreme Court by President Grover Cleveland, in 1894.
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Rufus Peckham remains the last Supreme Court Justice seated by a Democratic president when the Senate had a Republican majority.
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Beyond Lochner, Rufus Peckham is perhaps best known for his expansive interpretation of the Sherman antitrust law, in which he saw the goal of protecting consumer welfare.
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Rufus Peckham served on the Court until his death from cardiovascular disease on October 24,1909, at age 70, writing 303 opinions and dissenting only nine times.
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Rufus Peckham's death came during what biographer Willard King calls "[p]erhaps the worst year in the history of the Court" – the term from October 1909 to May 1910 – when two justices died, the other being David J Brewer, and another justice, William Henry Moody, became fully incapacitated, while Chief Justice Melville Fuller's health declined.
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Mrs Rufus Peckham was the paternal aunt of heiress Dorothy Arnold, whose disappearance on December 12,1910 was referenced, in 1928, as "the great search of the age" by United Press Associations.
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