Benjamin Drake Magruder, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Benjamin Drake Magruder

American judge

Date of Birth: 27-Sep-1838

Place of Birth: Jefferson County, Mississippi, United States

Date of Death: 21-Apr-1910

Profession: judge

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Benjamin Drake Magruder (September 27, 1838 – April 21, 1910) was an American judge from Mississippi.
Graduating from Yale University before he turned eighteen, Magruder studied law at the University of Louisiana at New Orleans Law School.
He briefly worked a law office in Memphis, Tennessee before establishing a series of practices in Chicago, Illinois.
He served on the Cook County Superior Court for seventeen years starting in 1868.
In 1885, he was elected to the Supreme Court of Illinois, where he wrote the decision denying the appeal of the Haymarket affair anarchists.
He served in this court until 1906, then resumed a law practice.