John Adley Hull (August 7, 1874 – April 17, 1944) was a Judge Advocate General in the

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and an associate justice of the

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. Hull was born in

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officer and longtime Iowa Congressman John A.T. Hull and his wife, Emma Gregory Hull. He received a law degree from the

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. At the beginning of the

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, he enlisted in the

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and was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and Judge Advocate for the U.S. Volunteers. In 1901, he was appointed a major in the

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. He would serve as legal advisor to

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from 1913 to 1921. He married Norma Bowler King at

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, Virginia, in 1919. She would divorce him on May 22, 1934, in

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. In 1924, President

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nominated him to be judge advocate general of the Army with the rank of major general, a position he held until 1928 when he retired from the Army. In 1927, it was thought he would succeed

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as Governor-General of the Philippines, but Coolidge instead chose past and future cabinet member

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. In February 1930, Hull served as Chief Legal Advisor to Stimson's successor as Governor General of the Philippines,

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. He served in that position until 1932, when President

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appointed him Associate Justice of the

. He resigned from the court on February 1, 1936. Earlier Philippine President

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had ruled that the Court of Appeals Act provided for only Philippine judges. He died at Walter Reed Hospital in

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, on April 17, 1944.

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