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词条 Morris Ames Soper
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  1. Education and career

  2. Federal judicial service

     Notable cases 

  3. Death and papers

  4. References

  5. Sources

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Morris Ames Soper (January 23, 1873 – March 11, 1963) was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and previously was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.

Education and career

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Soper received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1893 and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1895. He was an assistant state's attorney of Baltimore City from 1897 to 1899. He was an Assistant United States Attorney of the District of Maryland from 1900 to 1909. He was in private practice in Maryland from 1909 to 1914. He was President of the Board of Police Commissioners for Baltimore City from 1912 to 1913. He was Chief Judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore from 1914 to 1921. He was in private practice in Maryland from 1921 to 1923.[1]

Federal judicial service

Soper was nominated by President Warren G. Harding on February 10, 1923, to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Maryland vacated by Judge John C. Rose. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 24, 1923, and received his commission the same day. His service terminated on May 9, 1931, due to his elevation to the Fourth Circuit.[1]

Soper received a recess appointment from President Herbert Hoover on May 6, 1931, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit vacated by Judge Edmund Waddill Jr. He was nominated to the same position by President Hoover on December 15, 1931. He was confirmed by the Senate on January 12, 1932, and received his commission on January 19, 1932. He assumed senior status on June 2, 1955. His service terminated on March 11, 1963, due to his death.[1]

Notable cases

Beginning in 1955, Soper sat on a 3-judge federal panel which handled various desegregation cases in Virginia. With Chief Judge Charles Sterling Hutcheson of the Eastern District of Virginia and new Eastern District judge Walter E. Hoffman, Soper heard many desegregation cases arising from the Byrd Organization's declared policy of Massive Resistance to racial desegregation. The panel heard the cases ultimately decided by the United State Supreme Court in Harrison v. NAACP and NAACP v. Button, which concerned attempts to harass NAACP attorneys (including future Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall, 4th Circuit judge Spottswood Robinson and federal district judge Robert L. Carter) who were bringing the desegration case.[2]

Soper served on the board of trustees of Morgan State University for more than three decades (as its chairman for half that time), and helped bring it within the Maryland state university system. His last judicial act (as a senior judge) was an order allowing an African American, Henry Gantt, to attend the school of architecture at Clemson University.[2]

Death and papers

Soper died age 90 of complications after minor surgery at Baltimore's Union Memorial Hospital.[2] Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Maryland Governor Theodore McKeldin were among the pall bearers at his funeral.{{Citation needed|date=February 2019}}

Soper's papers were donated to the Maryland Historical Society Library with a 25-year restriction on access, which with a snafu meant archiving did not begin for decades.[3]

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/soper-morris-ames|title=Soper, Morris Ames - Federal Judicial Center|website=www.fjc.gov}}
2. ^James R. Sweeney, Race, Reason and Massive Resistance: the Diaries of David J. Mays (University of Georgia Press 2008)
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.mdhs.org/underbelly/2013/06/06/morris-a-soper-papers-coming-soon-or-25-years-late/|title=Morris A. Soper Papers – Coming Soon! (or 25 years late…) - underbelly|website=www.mdhs.org}}

Sources

  • {{cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/soper-morris-ames|title=Soper, Morris Ames - Federal Judicial Center|website=www.fjc.gov}}
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