Green Haywood Hackworth a Kentucky

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 native and graduate of the Valparaiso University School of Law

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, is perhaps best known as the first U.S.

United States

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 judge of the International Court of Justice

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He sat on the Court from 1946 to 1961 and also served as its president from 1955 to 1958.

Hackworth was also appointed as a Legal Adviser

Legal Adviser

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 to the U.S. Department of State, commencing on July 1, 1931 and ending March 1, 1946. Hackworth was commissioned during a recess of the Senate

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, and was subsequently recommissioned after confirmation on December 17, 1931.

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