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Robert Morris Montgomery

Presiding Judge, U.S. Court of Customs Appeals (later U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals) · 1910

Robert Morris Montgomery , Presiding Judge, U.S. Court of Customs Appeals (later U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals). Robert Morris Montgomery (May 12, 1849 – June 27, 1920) was a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court and a Presiding Judge of the United States Court of Customs Appeals.

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Career

U.S. Army, Seventh Michigan Cavalry, 1864; Private practice, Pentwater, Michigan, 1871-1873; Assistant assessor of internal revenue, State of Michigan, 1873; Prosecutor, Oceana County, Michigan, 1873-1877; Private practice, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1877, 1888-1891; Assistant U.S. attorney, Western District of Michigan, 1877-1881; Judge, Michigan Circuit Court, Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, 1881-1888; Justice, Michigan Supreme Court, 1892-1910; chief justice, 1900-1901, 1910

Biography

Robert Morris Montgomery (May 12, 1849 – June 27, 1920) was a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court and a Presiding Judge of the United States Court of Customs Appeals.

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