Fred Dickinson Letts

Judge Fred Dickinson Letts

Personal

Birthday:

4/26/1875

Birthplace:

Ainsworth, IA

Date of Death:

1/19/1965

Place of Death:

Washington, DC

Race or Ethnicity:

White

Gender:

Male

Prior Employment:

Private practice, Davenport, Iowa, 1899-1911, 1912-1914
Judge, Iowa District Court, Second Judicial District, 1911-1912, 1914-1925
U.S. representative from Iowa, 1925-1931

Education

Name of School:

Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa

Degree:

B.S.

Degree Year:

1897

Name of School - Second:

Columbia University

Name of School - Third:

University of Iowa College of Law

The highly competitive practice of law has a way of shaping a person. If you let it, it can and it will make you into a thing;...That thing the practice of law would make of you is ultimately what becomes of the once passionate, once idealistic, once hopeful, would-be world changer, who has become eroded by the routine, battering current of the practice, and who has failed to cultivate the ground cover that resists erosion of soul." For those of us in the world of work, whether as lawyers or not, tending to that initial force that drew us toward the study of law should be part of our thoughts and periodic reflections.

Degree - Third:

LL.B.

Degree Year - Third:

1899

Judicial Career

Court Name:

U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia [Supreme Court of the District of Columbia]

Court Name:

District of Columbia District Court

President Nominating:

Herbert Hoover

Party Affiliation of President:

Republican

Commission Date:

2/20/1932

Retirement from Active Service:

5/31/1961

Termination Date:

1/19/1965

Termination Reason:

Death