William Schofield was a United States

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 Judge

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Schofield attended the Harvard Law School

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 and then practiced law in Boston

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, Massachusetts

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. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

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 from 1899 to 1902 and served as a judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

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 from 1902 to 1911. In 1911, President

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 William Howard Taft

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 nominated Schofield as a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

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, to the seat vacated by Francis Cabot Lowell. He was confirmed by the United States Senate

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 on June 6, 1911, and received his commission on June 6, 1911. Unfortunately, he served in that position for just one year before his death on June 10, 1912.

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