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Day became McKinley's legal and political adviser during McKinley's candidacies for the Congress, the Governorship of Ohio, and the Presidency of the United States. [3] After he won the Presidency, McKinley appointed Day to be Assistant Secretary of State under Secretary of State John Sherman. [1]
William R. Day was a statesman and justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1903–22). After graduation from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, (1870), and admission to the bar, Day began to practice law in Canton, Ohio.
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Oct 19, 2009 · Justice William R. Day was the most fanatical, which is not so easy to prove: The sketches of Taft-the-fan and Day-the-fan that make up the bulk of this article are intended to give readers enough information to decide for themselves.
Day served on the Supreme Court for nineteen years. He retired on November 13, 1922, and accepted an appointment from President Warren G. Harding to serve on the Mixed Claims Commission to settle outstanding claims from World War I. Day died on July 9, 1923, at the age of seventy-four.
While establishing a solid reputation as a lawyer, Day struck up a friendship with William McKinley and became his adviser. Day was popular in Ohio. He was elected to the state trial court with the endorsement of both the Democrats and the Republicans.
William Rufus Day was an American diplomat and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1903 to 1922. Prior to his service on the Supreme Court, Day served as United States Secretary of State during the administration of President William McKinley.
President William McKinley would later appoint Day to serve four years on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and it was from that position that Day would take his place on the Supreme Court, having been appointed to that bench by President Theodore Roosevelt on January 29,1903.
