John Knauf was an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 judge who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Dakota in 1906. He was first appointed to the court in 1906 after justice Newton C. Young

Newton C. Young

Newton C. Young was an American judge who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Dakota from 1898 to 1906. He died in Fargo, North Dakota in 1912 at age 61.-External links:*...

 resigned, and he did not win re-election later that year, making his tenure of four and one half months on the court the shortest in North Dakota history. He died in Fargo, North Dakota

Fargo, North Dakota

Fargo is the largest city in the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Cass County. In 2010, its population was 105,549, and it had an estimated metropolitan population of 208,777...

in 1952 at age 84.

External links

• North Dakota Supreme Court biography