(1865–1930), U.S. jurist, born in Knoxville, Tenn.; University of Tennessee 1883; Harvard Law School 1889, admitted to the bar 1888; practiced law until 1907, when he was named assistant U.S. attorney general; U.S. district court judge 1908–23; as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1923–30, most significant opinion was the “pocket veto” ruling (1929), in which he ruled that a bill sent to a president by Congress less than 10 calendar days before adjournment is inoperative if neither signed nor returned by the president.