1928 APPLICATION EXECUTIVE PRISONER CLEMENCY GEORGIA FEDERAL PRISON CONTERFEIT

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Offered is a wonderful and rare old Application for Executive Clemency, filed by prisoner George Izzo of Rochester NY being held at the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta Georgia. Dated Oct 2, 1928. Involving a counterfeiting conviction, Izzo was filing to be commuted. 8 pages, with the last having signatures of prominent NY businessman in petition of the application. From the estate of Rochester NY Judge Harlan W Rippey. Light soiling, light wear, letter creased. It measures 8.5"w x 14". A nice find.
Harlan Watson Rippey
(September 8, 1874
York
,
Livingston County, New York
[
1
]
- March 11, 1946
Rochester
,
Monroe County, New York
) was an American lawyer and politician from
New York
.He graduated
A.B.
from the
University of Rochester
in 1898, and then taught mathematics at
Wagner College
. In 1899, he received an
A.M.
from University of Rochester.
He was admitted to the bar in 1901, and practice law in Rochester. He was Monroe County Inheritance Tax Appraiser from 1912 to 1915, and Monroe County Inheritance Tax Attorney from 1922 to 1927.
In 1927, he was appointed by Governor
Al Smith
a justice of the
New York Supreme Court
(7th District) to fill a vacancy, and remained on the bench until the end of 1928. He was a member of the New York State Commission for the Revision of the Tax Laws from 1930 to 1936.
Rippey was a judge of the
United States District Court for the Western District of New York
. Rippey was nominated by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
on June 9, 1934, to a seat vacated by
Simon L. Adler
. He was confirmed by the
United States Senate
on June 14, 1934, and received his commission on June 18, 1934.
In
1936
, he was elected on the
Democratic
ticket to the
New York Court of Appeals
, and resigned from the federal bench on December 31, 1936. He remained on the Court of Appeals until the end of 1944 when he reached the constitutional age limit of 70 years.
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