Background
Kerr, Ewing Thomas was born on January 21, 1900 in Bowie, Texas, United States. Son of George N. and Ellen H. (Wisdom) Kerr.
Kerr, Ewing Thomas was born on January 21, 1900 in Bowie, Texas, United States. Son of George N. and Ellen H. (Wisdom) Kerr.
Born in Bowie, Texas, Kerr attended the University of Colorado, and received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Oklahoma in 1923 and a Bachelor of Surgery from University of Central Oklahoma in 1923.
He read law to enter the Bar in 1927. He was in private practice in Cheyenne, Wyoming from 1927 to 1929. He was an assistant United States Attorney for the District of Wyoming from 1930 to 1933.
He was the Attorney General of Wyoming from 1939 to 1943, and an attorney for the Wyoming Senate in 1943.
He was in the United States Army during World World War II, from 1943 to 1946. Formally nominated on January 12, 1956, he was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 1, 1956, and received his commission the following day.
He assumed senior status on September 26, 1975. Kerr served until his death.
The Ewing T. Kerr Federal Building and United States Courthouse, in Casper, Wyoming, was named in his honor.
Served as major Army of the United States. With Allied Commission in Italy. Head legal division in area reorganized civilian courts in 1945, Austria.
Member Wyoming Bar Association, Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce Clubs: Mason (past master lodge, past grand master lodge, 33 degree), Rotarian.
Married Ellen Irene Peterson, February 22, 1933. Children: Hugh Neal, Judith Annual.