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Scott Wilson

Scott Wilson

First Circuit Court of Appeals

Born 1870 in Falmouth, ME

Died 1942 in Portland, ME

FJC ID: 2610

Career output and lasting influence

Opinions attributed per year · peak 12/year

First Circuit Court of Appeals · 1929–1942192919401960198020002016120
opinions

Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 24/year

First Circuit Court of Appeals · 1929–1942192919401960198020002016240
citing decisions

First Circuit Court of Appeals · 1929–1942

Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.

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Scott Wilson (January 11, 1870 – October 22, 1942) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

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Gender
Male
Race
White

Prior employment

  1. Conference of Senior Circuit Judges (now Judicial Conference of the United States)
    Member · 1939
  2. Maine Supreme Judicial Court
    Justice · 1918–1929
    • ↳chief justice · 1925–1929
  3. Private practice, Portland, Maine
    1895–1918
  4. State of Maine
    Attorney general · 1913–1914
  5. Portland, Maine
    City solicitor · 1902–1905
  6. Cumberland County, Maine
    Assistant county attorney · 1900–1902
  7. Deering, Maine
    City solicitor · 1899

Appointments

  1. First Circuit Court of Appeals
    U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
    1929–1942 · Appointed by Herbert Hoover (Republican)
    Term ended: Death

Education

  1. University of Pennsylvania
  2. Read law
    1895
  3. Bates College
    A.B. · 1892