Van Devanter

[ van di-van-ter ]

noun

1. Willis, 1859–1941, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1910–37.

Example Sentences

That rationale might have looked superficially reasonable at first, since the oldest member of the court’s so-called Four Conservative Horsemen, Willis Van Devanter, had been born during the administration of James Buchanan, which supposedly rendered him utterly out of step with the politics of the 1930s.

From Los Angeles Times

These four justices — Pierce Butler, James Clark McReynolds, George Sutherland and Willis Van Devanter — were profoundly hostile to Roosevelt's New Deal programs and did everything they possibly could to stop them.

From Salon

Nicknamed "the Four Horsemen," Justices Pierce Butler, James Clark McReynolds, George Sutherland and Willis Van Devanter viewed themselves as ideological crusaders on a mission to take down a president they perceived as a dangerous socialist.

From Salon

As Justice Willis Van Devanter set out in the 1927 case McGrain v.

From Washington Post

Sporting names like Pierce Butler, James McReynolds, George Sutherland, and Willis Van Devanter, they looked like they had walked off the set of Gone With the Wind.

From The Guardian