THE NEW YORK TIMES
Saturday, July 20, 1957
Duncan Lawrence Groner, Jurist,83,Dies;
Headed U.S. Court of Appeals in Capital
Special to the New York Times
NORFOLK, Va., July 19 – Duncan Lawrence Groner, former chief justice of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, died in Washington on Wednesday. He was 83 years old.
Judge Groner was a member of the court from 1931 until his appointment as chief judge in 1938. After his retirement in 1948, he was named by the Supreme Court to be special master for the Tidelands oil case. He termed it "one of the most unusual cases to come before the Supreme Court in more than fifty years.
A native of Norfolk, Judge Groner was graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1892 and two years later from the University of Virginia Law School. A Republican, he was a delegate to all the party's national conventions between 1904 and 1920.
He served as district judge of the Eastern District of Virginia from 1921 until his elevation to the District of Columbia Appeals Court. Shortly before leaving the bench, he estimated that he had heard 2,250 cases as chief judge.
Two of the justices serving with him in the Court of Appeals later were named to the United States Supreme Court. They were the late Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson and the late Associate Justice Wiley Rutledge.
During World War I Judge Groner served as a member of the Virginia State Council of Defense and in World War II as chairman of the Committee on Selective Service Deferment for the Judiciary.
He leaves his second wife, the former Mrs. Marian Edwards Shouse, and two sons, John V. and Duncan G. Groner, both of New York. His first wife, the former Anne Lawrence Vaughan of Norfolk, died in 1930.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Saturday, July 20, 1957
Duncan Lawrence Groner, Jurist,83,Dies;
Headed U.S. Court of Appeals in Capital
Special to the New York Times
NORFOLK, Va., July 19 – Duncan Lawrence Groner, former chief justice of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, died in Washington on Wednesday. He was 83 years old.
Judge Groner was a member of the court from 1931 until his appointment as chief judge in 1938. After his retirement in 1948, he was named by the Supreme Court to be special master for the Tidelands oil case. He termed it "one of the most unusual cases to come before the Supreme Court in more than fifty years.
A native of Norfolk, Judge Groner was graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1892 and two years later from the University of Virginia Law School. A Republican, he was a delegate to all the party's national conventions between 1904 and 1920.
He served as district judge of the Eastern District of Virginia from 1921 until his elevation to the District of Columbia Appeals Court. Shortly before leaving the bench, he estimated that he had heard 2,250 cases as chief judge.
Two of the justices serving with him in the Court of Appeals later were named to the United States Supreme Court. They were the late Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson and the late Associate Justice Wiley Rutledge.
During World War I Judge Groner served as a member of the Virginia State Council of Defense and in World War II as chairman of the Committee on Selective Service Deferment for the Judiciary.
He leaves his second wife, the former Mrs. Marian Edwards Shouse, and two sons, John V. and Duncan G. Groner, both of New York. His first wife, the former Anne Lawrence Vaughan of Norfolk, died in 1930.
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