Records of District Courts of the United States. 1685 - 2009. Correspondence of Judge Wesley E. Brown Relating to Prisoners

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Records of District Courts of the United States. 1685 - 2009. Correspondence of Judge Wesley E. Brown Relating to Prisoners

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Brown, Wesley E. (Wesley Ernest), 1907-2012

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Wesley Ernest Brown (b. June 22, 1907, Hutchinson, Kan.–d. Jan. 23, 2012, Wichita, Kan.), U.S. District Court judge who, as of his death, was both the longest serving federal judge and the oldest federal judge still hearing cases. He was the son of Morrison (Morey) Houston Heady Brown and Julia Elizabeth Wesley Brown. He graduated from the Kansas City School of Law in 1933, and was in private practice in Hutchinson from 1933 to 1944, which included time as a county attorney for Reno County, Kans...