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Mahlon R. Pitney IV (February 5, 1858 – December 9, 1924) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives for two terms from 1895 to 1899. He later served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1912 to 1922.
Mahlon Pitney (born February 5, 1858, Morristown, New Jersey, U.S.—died December 9, 1924, Washington, D.C.) was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1912–22).
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Pitney was appointed to the New Jersey Supreme Court for a seven-year term in 1901. In 1908, he was appointed Chancellor, head of both law and equity branches of the Court. On February 19, 1912, President William H. Taft nominated Pitney to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Mahlon Pitney was the last of President william howard taft's appointments to the Supreme Court. Organized labor and some progressives vigorously protested the nomination because of Pitney's antilabor opinions as a New Jersey state judge, but his views paralleled Taft's.
Justice Mahlon Pitney joined the U.S. Supreme Court on March 18, 1912, replacing Justice John Marshall Harlan. Pitney was born on February 5, 1858 in Morristown, New Jersey. He graduated in 1879 from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1882. He practiced law for about a decade before ...
Mahlon Pitney served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1912 to 1922. A lawyer, legislator, and New Jersey Supreme Court judge before his appointment, Pitney was a judicial conservative who believed in "liberty of contract" and who generally opposed efforts to protect the right of workers to join unions.
A classmate of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton, Mahlon Pitney served in Republican political office in Congress and in New Jersey. Though he aspired to be governor, he was appointed to the state's highest court ending his electoral ambitions.
