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Elbert P. and Sara Sutherland Tuttle interview

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-5-2471

Scope and content

Interview with Judge Elbert P. and Mrs. Sara Sutherland Tuttle, May 25, 1988. In the interview Judge Tuttle discusses his secondary schooling in Hawaii, selection of Cornell by six of thirty-five in his graduating class, his arrival with brother and mother in Ithaca, his work on the Cornell Daily Sun, his impressions of E.B. White, his observations of preparation for World War I at Cornell, the couple's recollection of their courtship, her completion of a degree from Goucher College at Cornell, and his not remembering even an hour spent in the Cornell library. He also talks about his entire career after Cornell, how he met his wife and got to Atlanta, founding his law firm, fighting in World War II, playing an earlier "Atticus Finch" in defending a falsely accused Negro (also hanged), his role chairing the Georgia Republican Party and in Eisenhower's 1952 Presidential nominating and electoral campaigns, his appointment and activities as District Judge in Atlanta, his handling as a Cornell trustee of the Straight takeover in 1969, and, for law students, his judicial philosophy.

Scope and content

Also, a digital copy of interview.

Dates

  • 1988.

Creator

Biographical / Historical

Judge Elbert Parr Tuttle (1897-1996) received an A.B. from Cornell in 1918 and an LL.B. degree in 1923. He was a member of the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit from 1954, and served as Chief Judge of that court from 1960 until his 70th birthday in 1967. While he "retired" to Senior Judge status a year later, in 1968, he remained actively involved in Court work until very near his death and sat on cases until 1990. His wife Sara Sutherland Tuttle graduated from Cornell in 1920.

Extent

1 videocassettes. (1 videocassette.)

1 DVDs. (1 DVD.)

Language of Materials

English