April 8th Autographs, Manuscripts, Books & Photography
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An ALS on Supreme Court stationary dated September 9th 1948 thanking judge Simmons, for sending his son as a law clerk and that he had a good experience with him over the summer.
Harold Hitz Burton was an American politician and lawyer. He served as the 45th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, as a U.S. Senator from Ohio, and as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Robert Glenmore Simmons was a Nebraska Republican politician. Simmons was elected chief justice of the Supreme Court of Nebraska in 1938. He was also a deputy judge in the administrative tribunal of the International Labour Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1955. While serving as Chief Justice, along with the chief justices of New Jersey, Arthur T. Vanderbilt, and Missouri, Laurance M. Hyde, he co-founded the Conference of Chief Justices in 1949. He retired in January 1963 after twenty-four years as the chief justice of Nebraska.
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U.S. Associate Justice Harold H. Burton letter to Nebraska Chief Justice Robert G. Simmons
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