Charles Elmore Cropley
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Charles Elmore Cropley served as Clerk
of the Supreme Court of the United States
for a quarter of a century, from 1927 until his death in 1952. He began his work for the court as a page, and, with the exception of two years, worked for it his whole life. Beginning his tenure as clerk when he thirty-three years old, Cropley was the youngest clerk in Supreme Court history. The Clerk of the Court routinely secured Bibles for use in presidential inaugurations and also typically held the Bible while the Chief Justice swore the oath to the President-elect. Cropley dropped FDR's family Dutch Bible after FDR took his oath upon it in 1941.
He married Roma Virginia Wornal.
Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States
The Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States is the officer of the Supreme Court of the United States responsible for overseeing filings with the Court and maintaining its records. The current Clerk is William Suter, who has served since 1991.-History:...
of the Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court of the United States
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for a quarter of a century, from 1927 until his death in 1952. He began his work for the court as a page, and, with the exception of two years, worked for it his whole life. Beginning his tenure as clerk when he thirty-three years old, Cropley was the youngest clerk in Supreme Court history. The Clerk of the Court routinely secured Bibles for use in presidential inaugurations and also typically held the Bible while the Chief Justice swore the oath to the President-elect. Cropley dropped FDR's family Dutch Bible after FDR took his oath upon it in 1941.
He married Roma Virginia Wornal.