Charles Cooper Nott Jr.
Charles Cooper Nott Jr. | |
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Nott in 1913 | |
| Born | October 10, 1869 |
| Died | May 10, 1957 (aged 87) New York City, US |
| Alma mater | Williams College Harvard Law School |
| Spouses | Julia Jerome Hildt
(m. 1896; died 1912)Mary Porter Mitchell
(m. 1916) |
| Children | 4 |
| Parent(s) | Charles Cooper Nott Sr. Alice Effingham Hopkins Nott |
| Relatives | Eliphalet Nott (great-grandfather) |
Charles Cooper Nott Jr. (October 10, 1869 – May 10, 1957) was an American attorney and jurist. He served as judge of the New York General Sessions Court from 1913 to 1939. In 1919 anarchists were planting a bomb on his doorstep when it prematurely exploded killing both of the bombers. In 1922 he presided over the obscenity case of James Branch Cabell and Robert Medill McBride for the novel, Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice. In 1939 he presided over the second trial of James Joseph Hines.