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Judge's Biography - Arthur Sidney Tompkins


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NAME: Tompkins, Arthur Sidney
BORN:8-26-1865
DIED:1-20-1938
COURT:Supreme
PERIOD of SENTENCE: 1909-1935
PREVIOUS:Police Justice, Village of Nyack, 1887-1890; member, NYS Assembly, 1889; member of Congress, 1889-1893; County Judge and Surrogate of Rockland County, 1893-1899.
PARTY:Republican
ITEM:Member, Appellate Division, Supreme Court, 2nd Jud. Dept., NY, 1930-35

SOURCE: Whos' Who in Law (1937), p. 944; Who's Who in Jurisprudence (1925), p. 1400; obit. N.Y. Times