Honorific-Prefix: | The Honorable |
Grover L. Broadfoot | |
Image Name: | Grover L. Broadfoot (WI).png |
Order: | 17th |
Chief Justice of the | |
Term Start: | January 1, 1962 |
Term End: | May 18, 1962 |
Predecessor: | John E. Martin |
Successor: | Timothy Brown |
Office1: | Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court |
Appointer1: | Oscar Rennebohm |
Term Start1: | November 12, 1948 |
Term End1: | May 18, 1962 |
Predecessor1: | Elmer E. Barlow |
Successor1: | Horace W. Wilkie |
Order2: | 30th |
Office2: | Attorney General of Wisconsin |
Term Start2: | June 5, 1948 |
Term End2: | November 12, 1948 |
Appointer2: | Oscar Rennebohm |
Predecessor2: | John E. Martin |
Successor2: | Thomas E. Fairchild |
State3: | Wisconsin |
State Assembly3: | Wisconsin |
District3: | Buffalo and Pepin |
Term Start3: | January 1, 1945 |
Term End3: | June 5, 1948 |
Predecessor3: | David I. Hammergren |
Successor3: | Edmund Hitt |
Office4: | Mayor of Mondovi, Wisconsin |
Term Start4: | April 1943 |
Term End4: | April 1947 |
Office5: | District Attorney of Buffalo County |
Term Start5: | January 1, 1923 |
Term End5: | January 1, 1935 |
Predecessor5: | Peter H. Urness |
Successor5: | Peter H. Urness |
Birth Name: | Grover Lee Broadfoot |
Birth Date: | 27 December 1892 |
Birth Place: | Independence, Wisconsin |
Death Place: | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
Restingplace: | Oak Park Cemetery Mondovi, Wisconsin |
Party: | Republican |
Father: | Alexander Broadfoot |
Mother: | Celia Eliza (Tillotson) Broadfoot |
Alma Mater: | University of Wisconsin |
Allegiance: | United States |
Serviceyears: | 1918 |
Battles: | World War I |
Grover Lee Broadfoot (December 27, 1892May 18, 1962) was an American lawyer and judge from Wisconsin. He was a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court for thirteen years and was briefly Chief Justice for the last 5 months of his life.[1] Earlier in his career, he had been the 30th Attorney General of Wisconsin, a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, Mayor of Mondovi, Wisconsin, and District Attorney of Buffalo County for twelve years.
Born in Independence, Wisconsin, Broadfoot moved with his family to Mondovi, Wisconsin, where he graduated from high school.[2] Broadfoot graduated from the University of Wisconsin, where he also received his law degree in 1918, and then enlisted in the army during World War I.[2] Later he was the district attorney of Buffalo County, Wisconsin and was mayor of Mondovi, Wisconsin from 1943 to 1947.[2] In 1947 he served in the Wisconsin State Assembly until June 5, 1948, when he resigned to become Attorney General of Wisconsin.[2] He then resigned on November 12, 1948, when he was appointed to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.[2] [3] In 1962 he became chief justice, serving until his death.[4] [5] He died of a heart ailment in Minneapolis.[2]