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William Irwin Grubb (March 8 1862 – October 27 1935) was a United States federal judge who struck down key portions of President Roosevelt’s New Deal. A Yale graduate Grubb was a corporate lawyer in Birmingham Alabama when he was appointed by President Taft in 1909 to fill a seat on the District Court for Northern Alabama. While Judge Grubb was a Democrat President Hoover appointed him in 1929 to the Wickersham Commission to investigate the effectiveness of prohibition.

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