SENATOR KENYON OF IOWA APPOINTED TO FEDERAL BENCH
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On January 31, 1922, President Warren G. Harding appointed Senator William S. Kenyon* (R-Iowa) "as a judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals of the 8th Circuit**."
Senator Kenyon, chairman of the agricultural bloc of the United States Senate, said....
"The President has known...that political life did not appeal to me and that my ambition was to serve on the Federal bench.
I am deeply appreciative of the act of the President in appointing me to this position."
*William Squire Kenyon (1869-1933) was born in Elyria, Ohio & attended the University of Iowa before reading for & practicing law. WSK served in the U.S. Senate 1911-1922 & as judge on the US Court of Appeals 1922-1933.
**8th Circuit comprises 13 states in the Middle West & Southwest U.S.
SOURCE
"Kenyon Quits Senate for U.S. Bench," The New York Tribune, January 31, 1922, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
