Lawrence Aloysius Whipple

Lawrence Aloysius Whipple
Lawrence Aloysius Whipple
Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
	In office; September 1, 1978 – June 8, 1983
Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
	In office; 1974–1978
Preceded by	Mitchell Harry Cohen
Succeeded by	George H. Barlow
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
	In office; October 12, 1967 – September 1, 1978
Appointed by	Lyndon B. Johnson
Preceded by	Thomas Francis Meaney
Succeeded by	H. Lee Sarokin
Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
	Acting
	In office; 1949–1951
Personal details
Born	July 26, 1910; New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	June 8, 1983 (aged 72); Red Bank, New Jersey, U.S.
Education	Columbia University (BS); Seton Hall University (LLB)

Lawrence Aloysius Whipple (July 26, 1910 – June 8, 1983) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Education and career

Born in New York City, Whipple received a Bachelor of Science degree from Columbia University in 1933 and a Bachelor of Laws from John Marshall Law School (now Seton Hall University School of Law) in 1939. He was in private practice from 1939 to 1949. He was an acting United States magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey from 1949 to 1951. He was Director of Law Enforcement for the Office of Public Safety in 1950. He was a special assistant United States attorney of the United States Department of Justice in 1951. He was executive director of the Jersey City Housing Authority in New Jersey in 1953. He was director of public safety for Jersey City, New Jersey from 1953 to 1957. He was director of the Department of Revenue and Finance for Jersey City in 1957. He was county counsel for Hudson County, New Jersey from 1957 to 1958. He was the deputy attorney general of New Jersey in 1958. He was a prosecutor in Hudson County from 1958 to 1962. He was a judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey from 1963 to 1967.^[1]

Whipple was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson on August 25, 1967, to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey vacated by Judge Thomas Francis Meaney. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 12, 1967, and received his commission the same day. He served as Chief Judge from 1974 to 1978 and was a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 1975 to 1978. He assumed senior status on September 1, 1978 due to a certified disability, and continued in that capacity until his death.^[1]

A resident of Sea Girt, New Jersey, Whipple died in nearby Red Bank, due to complications relating to heart surgery.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Lawrence Aloysius Whipple at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
^ Waggoner, Walter H. "Lawrence Whipple, 72, Dies; Sat On U.S. Court In Newark", The New York Times, June 9, 1983. Accessed March 18, 2020. "Judge Lawrence A. Whipple of Federal District Court in Newark died yesterday at Medicenter, a nursing home in Red Bank, N.J., of complications following open-heart surgery last September. He was 72 years old and lived in Sea Girt, N.J."

Legal offices
Preceded by Thomas Francis Meaney	Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey 1967–1978	Succeeded by H. Lee Sarokin
Preceded by Mitchell Harry Cohen	Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey 1974–1978	Succeeded by George H. Barlow