Casper Platt

Judge Casper Platt

Personal

Birthday:

6/6/1892

Birthplace:

Danville, IL

Date of Death:

9/16/1965

Race or Ethnicity:

White

Gender:

Male

Prior Employment:

Private practice, Danville, Illinois, 1916-1917, 1918-1933
U.S. Army, 1917-1918
City attorney, Danville, Illinois, 1927-1928
Judge, Illinois Circuit Court, Fifth Judicial Circuit, 1933-1949

Education

Name of School:

University of Illinois

Degree:

B.A.

Degree Year:

1914

Name of School - Second:

University of Chicago Law School

The University of Chicago Law School occupies a unique niche among this country's premier law schools. Located on a residential campus in one of America 's great cities, Chicago offers a rigorous and interdisciplinary professional education that blends the study of law with the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. Students, faculty, and staff form a small, tightly knit community devoted to the life of the mind. Learning is participatory. Chicago does not seek to impose a single viewpoint or style of thought on its students. Instead, our faculty exposes students to contrasting views, confident in students' abilities to choose their own paths.

Degree - Second:

J.D.

Degree Year - Second:

1916

Judicial Career

Court Name:

U. S. District Court, Eastern District of Illinois

President Nominating:

Harry S Truman

Party Affiliation of President:

Democratic

Commission Date:

10/13/1949

Termination Date:

9/16/1965

Termination Reason:

Death