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Joseph Chappell Hutcheson Jr.

Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1918–1931

Joseph Chappell Hutcheson Jr., Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Education

  • University of Texas School of LawLL.B., 1900

Career

Private practice, Houston, Texas, 1900-1918; Chief legal advisor, Houston, Texas, 1913-1917; Mayor, Houston, Texas, 1917-1918; Member, Judicial Conference of the United States, 1948-1959

Biography

Joseph Chappell Hutcheson Jr. (October 19, 1879 – January 18, 1973) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. He served as Mayor of Houston from 1917 to 1918.

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