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Elwyn R. Shaw
Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
In office
May 9, 1944 – July 18, 1950
Appointed byFranklin D. Roosevelt
Preceded byCharles Edgar Woodward
Succeeded byJoseph Sam Perry
Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court
In office
1933–1942
Preceded byFrank K. Dunn
Succeeded byWilliam J. Fulton
Personal details
Born
Elwyn Riley Shaw

(1888-10-19)October 19, 1888
Lyndon, Illinois
DiedJuly 18, 1950(1950-07-18) (aged 61)
Political partyDemocratic
EducationUniversity of Michigan Law School (LL.B.)
Occupationlawyer, judge

Elwyn Riley Shaw (October 19, 1888 – July 18, 1950) was an Illinois lawyer and judge who served as a justice of the Illinois Supreme Court (1933–1942), United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (1944–1950) and briefly as a member of National Railway Labor Panel in 1943.

Early life and education

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Born in Lyndon, Whiteside County, Illinois, Shaw received education locally in the public schools, then traveled to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he received a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Michigan Law School in 1910, and immediately entered private practice in Illinois.

Illinois lawyer and judge

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After returning to Illinois and being admitted to the bar, Shaw would begin a private legal practice in the Rock River valley area in western Illinois based in Freeport, Stephenson County, Illinois that continued for three decades. A lifelong Democrat, Shaw was an alternate at the Democratic National Convention in 1932.[1]

Following President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's landslide victory during the Great Depression, Shaw won election as a justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois. He served for nearly a decade (1933 to 1942), including as Chief Justice from 1938 to 1939. He was a member of the National Railway Labor Panel in 1943.[2]

Federal judicial service

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On March 7, 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated Saw to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois vacated by the death of Judge Charles Edgar Woodward in 1942. The United States Senate confirmed on May 3, 1944, and Shaw received his commission on May 9, 1944. Shaw served in that capacity until his death on July 18, 1950.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Shaw".
  2. ^ a b Elwyn Riley Shaw at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

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Legal offices
Preceded by Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court
1933–1942
Succeeded by
Preceded by Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
1944–1950
Succeeded by