Grover L. Broadfoot
{{short description|American politician and judge}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific-prefix = The Honorable
|name = Grover L. Broadfoot
|image name = Grover L. Broadfoot (WI).png
|caption =
|order = 17th
|title = Chief Justice of the {{nobreak|Wisconsin Supreme Court}}
| term_start = January 1, 1962
| term_end = May 18, 1962
| predecessor = John E. Martin
| successor = Timothy Brown
|office1 = Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
| appointer1 = Oscar Rennebohm
| term_start1 = November 12, 1948
| term_end1 = May 18, 1962
| predecessor1 = Elmer E. Barlow
| successor1 = Horace W. Wilkie
|order2 = 30th
|office2 = Attorney General of Wisconsin
| term_start2 = June 5, 1948
| term_end2 = November 12, 1948
| appointer2 = Oscar Rennebohm
| predecessor2 = John E. Martin
| successor2 = Thomas E. Fairchild
|state3 = Wisconsin
|state_assembly3 = Wisconsin
|district3 = Buffalo and Pepin
| term_start3 = January 1, 1945
| term_end3 = June 5, 1948
| predecessor3 = David I. Hammergren
| successor3 = Edmund Hitt
|office4 = Mayor of Mondovi, Wisconsin
| term_start4 = April 1943
| term_end4 = April 1947
|office5 = District Attorney of Buffalo County
| term_start5 = January 1, 1923
| term_end5 = January 1, 1935
| predecessor5 = Peter H. Urness
| successor5 = Peter H. Urness
|birth_name = Grover Lee Broadfoot
|birth_date = {{birth date|1892|12|27}}
|birth_place = Independence, Wisconsin
|death_date = {{death date and age|1962|5|18|1892|12|27}}
|death_place = Minneapolis, Minnesota
|restingplace = Oak Park Cemetery
Mondovi, Wisconsin
|party = Republican
|spouse = {{unbulleted list
| Margaret Marion Jacobi
| (m. 1925; died 1961)
}}
|children = {{unbulleted list
| John Alexander Broadfoot
}}
|father = Alexander Broadfoot
|mother = Celia Eliza (Tillotson) Broadfoot
|relatives =
|religion =
|alma_mater = University of Wisconsin
|allegiance = {{flag|United States}}
|branch = {{flag|United States Army}}
|serviceyears = 1918
|rank =
|unit =
|commands =
|battles = World War I
|mawards =
|footnotes =
}}
Grover Lee Broadfoot (December 27, 1892{{spaced ndash}}May 18, 1962) was an American lawyer and judge from Wisconsin. He was a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court for thirteen years and was briefly Chief Justice for the last 5 months of his life.{{Cite web|url=http://www.pibburns.com/celiatil.htm|title=Celia Eliza Tillotson and Alexander Broadfoot}} Earlier in his career, he had been the 30th Attorney General of Wisconsin, a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, Mayor of Mondovi, Wisconsin, and District Attorney of Buffalo County for twelve years.
Biography
Born in Independence, Wisconsin, Broadfoot moved with his family to Mondovi, Wisconsin, where he graduated from high school.{{cite news|title=Chief Justice of State Dies in Minneapolis |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3601749/grover_l_broadfoot_18921962/|newspaper=The Post-Crescent|date=May 19, 1962|page=1|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = November 11, 2015 }} {{Open access}} Broadfoot graduated from the University of Wisconsin, where he also received his law degree in 1918, and then enlisted in the army during World War I. Later he was the district attorney of Buffalo County, Wisconsin and was mayor of Mondovi, Wisconsin from 1943 to 1947. In 1947 he served in the Wisconsin State Assembly until June 5, 1948, when he resigned to become Attorney General of Wisconsin. He then resigned on November 12, 1948, when he was appointed to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.http://www.doj.state.wi.us/ag/wi.ags.asp {{Dead link |date=March 2023 |fix-attempted=March 2023}} In 1962 he became chief justice, serving until his death.{{cite web |url=http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=2165&search_term=broadfoot |title=Broadfoot, Grover L. 1892 |website=www.wisconsinhistory.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611152532/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=2165&search_term=broadfoot |archive-date=2011-06-11}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.wicourts.gov/about/judges/supreme/retired/broadfoot.htm |title=Wisconsin Court System - Grover L. Broadfoot |access-date=2009-11-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609173015/http://www.wicourts.gov/about/judges/supreme/retired/broadfoot.htm |archive-date=2010-06-09 |url-status=dead }} He died of a heart ailment in Minneapolis.
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External links
- {{Find a Grave|92187523|Grover Lee Broadfoot}}
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Category:People from Independence, Wisconsin
Category:People from Mondovi, Wisconsin
Category:Military personnel from Wisconsin
Category:University of Wisconsin Law School alumni
Category:Chief justices of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
Category:Wisconsin attorneys general
Category:Members of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Category:20th-century Wisconsin state court judges
Category:United States Army personnel of World War I