Jules Gilmer Korner Jr. (July 24, 1888 – January 14, 1967)William G. Scroggins, ''Leaves of a Stunted Shrub: A Genealogy of the Scrogin-Scroggin-Scroggins Family'', Vol. 4 (2009), p. 59. was a judge of the United States Board of Tax Appeals (later the

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) from 1924 to 1927. Born in

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, Korner received an A.M. from

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, North Carolina in 1909, and later attended the Harvard Law School."Newly Appointed Tax Board To Be Organized At Once", ''The Baltimore Sun'' (July 4, 1924), p. 6. Korner enlisted in the

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in 1917, during

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."Thirteen Members of Board of Tax Appeals Reappointed", ''National Income Tax Magazine'' (June 1926), vol. 4, no. 6, p. 206-210. After the war resumed the practice of law in Winston-Salem. He joined the Bureau of Internal Revenue as special attorney in the office of the solicitor on July 1, 1921. He was appointed assistant solicitor in charge of the penal division on January 1, 1923. Korner was one of the original twelve members appointed to the Board of Tax Appeals, and one of a group of five appointed "from the Bureau of Internal Revenue". Korner was "an intimate personal friend of David H. Blair", who was

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at the time of Korner's appointment."Tax Appeal Board Is Placed In Peril By Senate Delay", ''The Brooklyn Daily Eagle'' (June 6, 1926), p. 4. During Korner's service as chairman of the board, Albert E. James and Adolphus E. Graupner were the only members not reappointed to the Board when their initial terms expired, reportedly "because of their differences of opinion with orner concerning 'administrative matters'".Harold Dubroff and Brant J. Hellwig,
U.S. Tax Court: an Historical Analysis
' (2015), p. 207. Korner married Susan Leonard Brown died in October 1917, with whom he had one son, Jules G. Korner III, who also served as a U.S. tax court judge. Korner died in

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at the age of 78.

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1888 births 1967 deaths People from Winston-Salem, North Carolina Duke University alumni Members of the United States Board of Tax Appeals United States Article I federal judges appointed by Calvin Coolidge {{US-judge-stub