Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Groner, Duncan Lawrence July 17, 1957
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THE NEW YORK TIMES Saturday, July 20, 1957


Duncan Lawrence Groner, Jurist,83,Dies;

Headed U.S. Court of Appeals in Capital

Special to the New York Times

NORFOLK, Va., July 19 – Duncan Lawrence Groner, former chief justice of the 
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, died in Washington 
on Wednesday. He was 83 years old.

Judge Groner was a member of the court from 1931 until his appointment as chief 
judge in 1938. After his retirement in 1948, he was named by the Supreme Court 
to be special master for the Tidelands oil case. He termed it "one of the most 
unusual cases to come before the Supreme Court in more than fifty years.

A native of Norfolk, Judge Groner was graduated from Washington and Lee 
University in 1892 and two years later from the University of Virginia Law 
School. A Republican, he was a delegate to all the party's national conventions 
between 1904 and 1920.

He served as district judge of the Eastern District of Virginia from 1921 until 
his elevation to the District of Columbia Appeals Court. Shortly before leaving 
the bench, he estimated that he had heard 2,250 cases as chief judge.

Two of the justices serving with him in the Court of Appeals later were named 
to the United States Supreme Court. They were the late Chief Justice Fred M. 
Vinson and the late Associate Justice Wiley Rutledge.

During World War I Judge Groner served as a member of the Virginia State 
Council of Defense and in World War II as chairman of the Committee on 
Selective Service Deferment for the Judiciary.

He leaves his second wife, the former Mrs. Marian Edwards Shouse, and two sons, 
John V. and Duncan G. Groner, both of New York. His first wife, the former Anne 
Lawrence Vaughan of Norfolk, died in 1930.


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