Clarence Charles Newcomer

Clarence Charles Newcomer
Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
In office
January 19, 1988 – August 22, 2005
Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
In office
November 30, 1971 – January 19, 1988
Appointed by Richard Nixon
Preceded by Charles William Kraft Jr.
Succeeded by Herbert J. Hutton
Personal details
Born Clarence Charles Newcomer
(1923-01-18)January 18, 1923
Mount Joy, Pennsylvania
Died August 22, 2005(2005-08-22) (aged 82)
Stone Harbor, Pennsylvania
Education Franklin & Marshall College (A.B.)
Dickinson School of Law (J.D.)

Clarence Charles Newcomer (January 18, 1923 – August 22, 2005) was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Education and career

Born in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, Newcomer was a United States Naval Reserve Lieutenant during World War II, from 1943 to 1946. During that time he earned an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Franklin & Marshall College in 1944 where he was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity.[1] He then received a Juris Doctor from Dickinson School of Law (now Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson Law) in 1948. He was in private practice in Lancaster, Pennsylvania from 1950 to 1971. He was a special deputy commonwealth attorney general of Pennsylvania from 1953 to 1954. He was an assistant district attorney of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania from 1960 to 1968. He was District Attorney of Lancaster County from 1968 to 1972.[2]

Federal judicial service

Newcomer was nominated by President Richard Nixon on November 17, 1971, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania vacated by Judge Charles William Kraft Jr. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 23, 1971, and received his commission on November 30, 1971. He assumed senior status on January 19, 1988.[2] Newcomer served in that capacity until his death on August 22, 2005, at his home in Stone Harbor, New Jersey.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Outstanding Accomplishments" (PDF). The Emerald of Sigma Pi. Vol. 58 no. 4. Winter 1972. p. 41.
  2. 1 2 Clarence Charles Newcomer at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
  3. ↑ Martin, Douglas. "Clarence C. Newcomer, a Longtime Federal Judge, Dies at 82", The New York Times, August 25, 2005. Accessed July 8, 2015. "Clarence C. Newcomer, who as a federal judge in Philadelphia for more than three decades won a reputation for no-nonsense jurisprudence in hundreds of cases ranging from civil rights to organized crime to baseball cards, died Monday at his home in Stone Harbor, N.J., near Cape May. He was 82."

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Legal offices
Preceded by
Charles William Kraft Jr.		 Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
1971–1988		 Succeeded by
Herbert J. Hutton
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