Casper Platt

Personal

Birthday: 
6/6/1892
Birthplace: 
Danville, IL
Date of Death: 
9/16/1965
Race or Ethnicity: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Prior Employment: 

Private practice, Danville, Illinois, 1916-1917, 1918-1933
U.S. Army, 1917-1918
City attorney, Danville, Illinois, 1927-1928
Judge, Illinois Circuit Court, Fifth Judicial Circuit, 1933-1949

Education

Name of School: 
University of Illinois
Degree: 
B.A.
Degree Year: 
1914
Name of School - Second: 

University of Chicago Law School

The University of Chicago Law School occupies a unique niche among this country's premier law schools. Located on a residential campus in one of America 's great cities, Chicago offers a rigorous and interdisciplinary professional education that blends the study of law with the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. Students, faculty, and staff form a small, tightly knit community devoted to the life of the mind. Learning is participatory. Chicago does not seek to impose a single viewpoint or style of thought on its students. Instead, our faculty exposes students to contrasting views, confident in students' abilities to choose their own paths.

Degree - Second: 
J.D.
Degree Year - Second: 
1916

Judicial Career

Court Name: 
U. S. District Court, Eastern District of Illinois
President Nominating: 
Harry S Truman
Party Affiliation of President: 
Democratic
Commission Date: 
10/13/1949
Termination Date: 
9/16/1965
Termination Reason: 
Death