Milton Benjamin Badt Explained

Milton Benjamin Badt
Office:Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada
Term Start:March 26, 1947
Term End:April 2, 1966
Predecessor:Errol James Livingston Taber
Successor:Jon R. Collins
Birth Date:29 November 1884
Birth Place:San Francisco, California, U.S.
Spouse:Gertrude
Children:2
Profession:Judge

Milton Benjamin Badt (1884 – April 2, 1966[1]) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada from 1947 to 1966.[2]

His family was Orthodox Jewish and his father immigrated from Polish Prussia. Badt was born in San Francisco and studied in California but established his practice in Elko, Nevada, where his parents lived. He had a wife Gertrude and two children. He was a Republican.[3]

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[4]

Badt suffered a heart attack in March 1966 at the age of 81, and died the following month.[5] Jon R. Collins was appointed June 5, 1966 to succeed him.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Nevada State Journal Newspaper Archives, Apr 3, 1966, p. 1 . NewspaperArchive.com . 8 May 2020 . en . 3 April 1966.
  2. Web site: Nevada State Journal Archives, Feb 11, 1947, p. 12 . NewspaperArchive.com . 8 May 2020 . en . 11 February 1947.
  3. Web site: Milton Badt | ONE. www.onlinenevada.org.
  4. Web site: The Nevada Supreme Court. March 19, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120319204937/http://nsla.nevadaculture.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=945&Itemid=418/. 2012-03-19.
  5. Web site: Las Vegas Sun Newspaper Archives, Apr 2, 1966, p. 3 . NewspaperArchive.com . 8 May 2020 . en . 2 April 1966.