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Gilbert Ernstein Roe was born in the town of Oregon, Dane County, Wisconsin, United States, the son of John and Jane (McKeeby) Roe.
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Gilbert Ernstein Roe was born in the town of Oregon, Dane County, Wisconsin, United States, the son of John and Jane (McKeeby) Roe.
Of English and Scotch descent, he was educated at the University of Wisconsin and graduated from the law school in 1890.
He immediately entered the law firm of Robert M. La Follette, with whom he was intimately associated for thirty-five years. It was in this association that Roe, as the trusted political and legal adviser of La Follette, found the opportunity for his most significant activities in public affairs. Particularly in connection with direct primary, and with railroad and insurance legislation was his political and legal skill of value in effectuating the La Follette program. He led the successful contest in the Republican State Convention of 1898 for a platform declaration favorable to the direct primary, and his advice was influential in the subsequent political and legislative development of the proposal. In the drafting of the railroad and insurance statutes he was equally valuable, returning several times from New York City, whence he had removed in 1899, to aid in the solution of some difficult problem. After several years spent in establishing a law practice in New York City, from 1905 to 1910 in partnership with William F. McCombs, Roe became prominent in the movement to apply in New York state the major ideas of the Wisconsin plan. He was a member of the commission appointed by Governer William Sulzer to draft a direct primary law; he was active in behalf of workmen's compensation legislation and, when the New York court of appeals declared the original law unconstitutional in 1911, he drafted the new and improved law. His devotion to the liberal tenets of the Progressive movement led him to defend those who opposed the war activities of the government and who were prosecuted for violation of the espionage acts. He was amicus curiae in the appeal of the Debs case to the United States Supreme Court; he won all his jury cases which involved charges of disloyalty; he successfully contested exclusion of several anti-war newspapers from the mails; and he was counsel to the five Socialist New York assemblymen who were deprived of their seats for their war attitudes. As counsel to the Teachers' Union in New York he was influential in the repeal of the Lusk laws. In the unsuccessful proceedings to expel La Follette from the Senate in December 1918 for alleged seditious activities, he was counsel to the Senator (Senate Report 614, 65 Cong. , 3 Sess. ) . During 1922-23, as counsel to the Senate committee on manufactures, of which La Follette was chairman, Roe made an investigation of the oil industry which laid the basis for the Teapot Dome and other investigations of the Harding administration (Senate Report 1263, 67 Cong. , 4 Sess. ) . He was throughout his life a critic of the judicial process. His Selected Opinions of Luther S. Dixon and Edward G. Ryan, Late Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin (1907) expressed his opposition to the conservative tendencies of the law. In Our Judicial Oligarchy (1912) he developed the thesis that the courts had usurped authority in their review of legislative acts, and elaborated, through a careful analysis of judicial decisions, his charge that judges were disposed to preserve property rights at an excessive cost to society. His pronounced ideas on this subject were the mainspring for La Follette's proposal in 1912 and in 1924 that the courts be curbed in their power to nullify the decisions of the law-making agencies.
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(Selected opinions of Luther S. Dixon and Edward G. Ryan, ...)
He was throughout his life a critic of the judicial process. His Selected Opinions of Luther S. Dixon and Edward G. Ryan, Late Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin (1907) expressed his opposition to the conservative tendencies of the law.
His devotion to the liberal tenets of the Progressive movement led him to defend those who opposed the war activities of the government and who were prosecuted for violation of the espionage acts.
He had married, on November 12, 1899, Gwyneth King, who with three children survived him.
Roe died in New York City in the winter of 1929.
