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Mortimer W. Byers

Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York · 1929

Mortimer W. Byers , Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Mortimer Wardle Byers (March 28, 1877 – March 5, 1962) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York from 1929 to 1962 and its chief judge from 1958 to 1959.

Education

  • Columbia Law SchoolLL.B., 1898

Career

New York National Guard sergeant, Twenty-Third Regiment, World War I; Private practice, Brooklyn, New York, 1898-1929

Biography

Mortimer Wardle Byers (March 28, 1877 – March 5, 1962) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York from 1929 to 1962 and its chief judge from 1958 to 1959.

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