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Scott Wilson (1870-1942) was a judge on United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from 1929-1942.

Scott Wilson was born on January 11, 1870, in Falmouth, Maine. He graduated from Bates College in Maine in 1892 and then studied at the University of Pennsylvania. Wilson read the law in 1895 and was engaged in private practice in Portland, Maine from 1895-1918.

Wilson was the city solicitor of Deering, Maine in 1899 and assistant attorney of Cumberland County, Maine from 1900 to 1902. He served as city solicitor of Portland, Maine from 1902 to 1905 and state attorney general of Maine from 1913 to 1914. Wilson was appointed as an associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine and served from 1918 to 1925, when he became Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, serving from 1925 to 1929.

Wilson was nominated for a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit by President Herbert Hoover on September 9, 1929, to a seat vacated by Charles Fletcher Johnson. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on October 2, 1929, and received his commission on October 2, 1929. Wilson assumed senior status on March 31, 1940. His service terminated on October 22, 1942, when he died in Portland, Maine.

See also

• List of Bates College people

References and External links

• Federal Judiciary Biography

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