PRESIDENT URGED TO APPOINT ROBB CHIEF JUSTICE OF US COURT OF APPEALS OF D.C.
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On April 26, 1924, a formal request was made of President Calvin Coolidge "by a special committee representing the Bar Association of the District of Columbia to appoint Associate Justice Charles H. Robb*...to the vacancy of chief justice of that court."
Justice Robb, currently on the US Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia and if appointed by the President to the chief justice position, would fill the vacancy caused by the recent death of Constantine J. Smyth.
The resolutions prepared by the special committee were "placed in the hands of President Coolidge" by John Lewis Smith, vice-president of the Bar Association of D.C.
*Charles Henry Robb (1867-1939) was born in Malone, New York & was admitted to the bar in 1892 & practiced law in Vermont before serving as Associate Justice of the US Court of Appeals of D.C. 1906-1937.
JFK+50 NOTE
President Coolidge did not take the advice of the Bar Association in their recommendation of Justice Robb for chief justice as he continued in his position as associate justice until 1937.
Coolidge nominated George Ewing Martin of Ohio for chief justice of the USCA of DC on May 16, 1924 & the nomination was confirmed on May 22, 1924. Martin served as CJ of the court from 1924-1937 & then continued on as senior associate justice 1937-1948.
SOURCE
"Coolidge Is Urged To Promote Robb," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., April 26, 1924, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
