Milton Benjamin Badt (1884 – April 2, 1966) was a justice of the

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from 1947 to 1966. His family was Orthodox Jewish and his father immigrated from Polish Prussia. Badt was born in

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and studied in

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but established his practice in

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, where his parents lived. He had a wife Gertrude and two children. He was a Republican. He was appointed March 26, 1947 to fill E. L. J. Taber's vacancy and elected November 1948 to fulfill the rest of his unexpired term Badt suffered a heart attack in March 1966 at the age of 81, and died the following month. Jon R. Collins was appointed June 5, 1966 to succeed him.

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