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Born in Berkeley County, West Virginia, Westenhaver received an Bachelor of Laws from Georgetown University Law School in 1886. Westenhaver was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 14, 1917, and received his commission the same day. Westenhaver served in that capacity until his death.
Westenhaver was married June, 1888 at Martinsburg, West Virginia, to Mary C. Paull.
They had a son named Edward P. He was a Democrat in politics. Westenhaver was the presiding judge in the sedition trial of Eugene V. Debs in 1918, and handed down the widely protested sentence of ten years imprisonment that was ultimately commuted by President Warren Harding.
Ohio, a decision that was overturned by the United States. Supreme Court in a landmark ruling that established the constitutionality of zoning laws.
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He was in private practice in Martinsburg, West Virginia from 1886 to 1903, serving as a prosecuting attorney of Berkeley County from 1886 to 1887, and as a member of the Martinsburg City Council from 1902 to 1903. He then moved his practice to Cleveland, Ohio from 1903 to 1917, and was a member of the Board of Education, Cleveland, Ohio from 1912 to 1915.
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