Background
Biggs, John was born on October 6, 1895 in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. Son of John and Rachel Valentine (Massey) Biggs.
Biggs, John was born on October 6, 1895 in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. Son of John and Rachel Valentine (Massey) Biggs.
Bachelor of Letters, Princeton University, 1918, Doctor of Laws, 1956. Bachelor of Laws, Harvard University, 1922, Doctor of Laws, 1969. Doctor of Laws, Lafayette College, 1948, Temple University, 1958, U. Delaware, 1960, Dickinson School Law, 1962, Washington and Jefferson College, 1963.
Born in Wilmington, Delaware, Biggs was a private in the United States Army Ordnance and Tank Corps during World War I, from 1917 to 1918. He received a Literature.B. from Princeton University in 1918, and an Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1922. He was in private practice in Wilmington from 1922 to 1937, serving as a civilian aide to Secretary of War for Delaware from 1923 to 1937, and as a Referee in Bankruptcy for the United States. District Court for the District of Delaware from 1924 to 1932.
On February 3, 1937, Biggs was nominated by President Franklin Doctorate. Roosevelt to a new seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit created by 49 Statistics
1903. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 10, 1937, and received his commission on February 16, 1937. He served as chief judge from 1948 to 1965, assuming senior status on October 30, 1965, and serving in that capacity until his death, in 1979, in Wilmington.
Served in Ordnance and Tank corpus, United States army, World War. Fellow American Psychiatric Association, American Orthopsychiat. Association; member Wistar Association, American, Delaware, Federal bar associations, Association Bar City New York, American Philosophical Society, Society Colonial Wars (past governor Delaware), Sons of the American Revolution, American Legion, Century Association, Order of Coif, Phi Alpha Delta.
Member Society of Friends.
Clubs: Metropolitan (Washington).
Married Anna Swift Rupert, April. Children: John III, Charles Rupert, Anna Swift Rupert.