Bower Slack Broaddus was a United States federal judge

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Born in Chillicothe, Missouri

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, Broaddus received an LL.B. from Kansas City School of Law in 1910. He was in private practice in Muskogee, Oklahoma

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 from 1910 to 1940. He was a police judge in Muskogee from 1912 to 1914, and was a city attorney of Muskogee from 1926 to 1930. He was a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives

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 from 1933 to 1935, and of the Oklahoma State Senate from 1935 to 1938.

On September 24, 1940, Broaddus was nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt

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 to a jointly held seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

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, United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

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, and United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma

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, vacated by Alfred P. Murrah

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. Broaddus was confirmed by the United States Senate

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 on September 27, 1940, and received his commission on October 1, 1940. Broaddus served in that capacity until his death, in 1949.

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