Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1903 — DAY FOR SUPREME BENCH. [ARTICLE]

DAY FOR SUPREME BENCH.

Position Tendered by President Roosevelt Has Been Accepted. Judge W. R. Day, of Canton, Ohio, has accepted a tender of appointment as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Judge Day said in answer to a query as to his appointment: “I received the tender from President Roosevelt Saturday. I mailed my acceptance at once.” Judge Day was born" at Ravenna, Ohio, near the old iiome qf Garfield. He was educated at the University of Michigan, being graduateertherefrom in 1872 and entering the practice of law during the same year. Fourteen years later he was elected Judge of the Common Pleas Goutt; The next honor which came to him was the appointment to the bench of the United States District Court for the northern district of Ohio. In view of the impending physical collapse of John Sherman, President McKinley selected Judge Day at First Assistant Secretary of State after his election to the presidency. After Mr. Sherman’s resignation Judge Day was made Secretary of State, which office he resigned to take a seat upon the commission which was sent to Paris to negotiate a treaty of peace with Spain. After the cohclusion of this duty he accepted an appointment to the United States District Court. It is from this position that he is elevated to the bench of the Supreme-Court of the United States.