Van Devanter

American  

[van di-van-ter] / ˌvæn dɪˈvæn tər /

noun

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

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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

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

Lynda Van Devanter, the nurse whose memoir inspired “China Beach,” a late 1980s drama about women in Vietnam, recalled the searing shock of Lane’s death the very day she arrived in Vietnam.

From Washington Times

“I suddenly became very aware that women could in fact be in danger, and that this was no game anymore,” Van Devanter said in a documentary interview.

From Washington Times