Roujet D. Marshall

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name = Roujet D. Marshall


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birthdate = December 27, 1847
birthplace = Nashua, New Hampshire
deathdate = May 22, 1922
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spouse = Mary Jenkins

Roujet (or Rouget) DeLisle Marshall (27 December 1847 - 22 May 1922) was an American judge who served as a justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court from 1895 to 1918.

He was named after the writer of the French National Anthem, "La Marseillaise", Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle. cite web
url=http://www.wisbar.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Wisconsin_Lawyer&template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&contentid=34575#16
title=Justice Roujet D. Marshall: The World of Buoyant Opportunism
accessdate= 2007-07-05
date=July 2003
publisher= [http://www.wisbar.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Current_Issue1&Template=/WisconsinLawyer.cfm Wisconsin Lawyer] ]

Early life

Born in Nashua, New Hampshire in 1847 to farming parents, Marshall's family moved to Wisconsin in 1854 when he was 7. In the early 1860s however, his father was disabled, and Marshall had to take on most of the work on the farm while continuing his schooling and eventually attending college.

After reading a biography of Constitutional lawyer William Wirt, he was inspired to go into law.

He was admitted to the bar in 1871, and worked with a lawyer in Sauk County, N.W. Wheeler. When Wheeler moved to Chippewa Falls in 1873, Marshall followed. The lumber industry town generated plenty of legal business.

References

External links

* [http://www.wicourts.gov/about/judges/supreme/retired/marshall.htm Wisconsin Court System Biography]
* [http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=1532 Wisconsin Historical Society Biography]