Draft:Elmer J. Rathbun

Elmer Jeremiah Rathbun (April 16, 1870 – 1952) was a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from 1909 to 19__.

(appointed sometime between 1920 and 1929)

https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/rathbun/501/

E.C. Bowler, An Album of the Attorneys of Rhode Island (1904)

He graduated from Brown University in 1896 and Boston University School of Law in 1898. He represented West Greenwich in the Lower House of the Rhode Island General Assembly from 1897 until 1909. From 1899 until 1900 he served as the Clerk of the District Court of the Fourth District of Rhode Island. In 1900 he was elected Justice of the District Court of the Fourth District of Rhode Island, a position in which he was to serve for nine years. Justice Rathbun was appointed an Associate Justice of the Superior Court on January 22, 1909.^[1]

References[edit]

^ "Rhode Island Superior Court Centennial 1905-2005" (2005), Library Archive, Paper 6, p. 2.

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Preceded by [[]]	Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court 1909–19__	Succeeded by [[]]

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[1] "Rhode Island Superior Court Centennial 1905-2005" (2005), Library Archive, Paper 6, p. 2.

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