1917 Wisconsin Supreme Court election

none April 2025 April 2025 1917 Wisconsin Supreme Court election Wisconsin presidential no 1916 1918 (special) April 3, 1917 Walter C. Owen (Wisconsin Supreme Court justice) 1910s (3x4).jpg Walter C. Owen c0c0c0 148,324 51.66% Roujet D. Marshall (Wisconsin Supreme Court justice) official portrait photograph, circa 1913.jpg Roujet D. Marshall c0c0c0 138,620 48.28% File:1917 Wisconsin Supreme Court election results map by county.svg Owens: #51C2C2 50–60% #2AACAC 60–70% #009696 70–80%Marshall: #FF9A50 50–60% #EE8E50 60–70% Justice Roujet D. Marshall Walter C. Owen 1907 Wisconsin Supreme Court election 1907 1927 Wisconsin Supreme Court election 1927 The 1917 Wisconsin Supreme Court election was held on Tuesday, April 3, 1907, to elect a justice to the Wisconsin Supreme Court for a ten-year term. Walter C. Owen (the attorney general of Wisconsin) defeated incumbent justice Roujet D. Marshall. This was only the third instance in the state's history in which an incumbent Supreme Court justice lost an election. Marshall's defeat was largely attributed to a controversial ruling he authored striking down the state's forestry law. Background Marshall had held his seat since 1895, when Governor William Upham appointed him to fill a vacancy on the court. He was thereafter elected to the seat three times, first in the special election of 1896, being re-elected in the regular elections held in 1897 and 1907. He faced no opposition in those elections. Result Owen defeated Marshall. This was only the third instance in which an incumbent justice lost an election to the state's supreme court (the previous instances being in 1855 and 1908). This has only occurred five further times since (in 1947, 1958, 1967, 2008, and 2020).Ostermeier Eric The Incumbency Advantage in Wisconsin Supreme Court Elections https://smartpolitics.lib.umn.edu/2011/04/11/the-incumbency-advantage-in-wi/ Smart Politics 8 April 2025 11 April 2011Johnson Shawn Jill Karofsky Wins Wisconsin Supreme Court Race, Defeating Conservative Incumbent https://www.wpr.org/health/jill-karofsky-wins-wisconsin-supreme-court-race-defeating-conservative-incumbent WPR 8 April 2025 14 April 2020 Marshall's defeat has been largely attributed to a then-controversial 1915 majority opinion that he had authored regarding the state's Forestry Law (a law championed by the state's progressive). Marshall had found that the violated state's constitution. The law had established a state forest preserve and created a state commission tasked with conservation of lands that had been cleared by lumbering. Contrarily, as attorney general Owen had defended the law before the court.Ranney ¡first=Joseph Justice Roujet D. Marshall: The World of Buoyant Opportunism https://www.wisbar.org/newspublications/wisconsinlawyer/pages/Article.aspx?Volume=76&Issue=7&ArticleID=501 Wisconsin Lawyer State Bar of Wisconsin 76 July 1, 2003 18 April 2025 en 1917 Wisconsin Supreme Court election https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AHJ36XSBOIV4J28N/pages/AMYYGSRSSOFRLA8D The Wisconsin Blue Book 1919 1919 State of Wisconsin 43 April 18, 2025 | colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| General election (April 3, 1917) Nonpartisan politician Walter C. Owen 148,324 51.66 Nonpartisan politician Roujet D. Marshall (incumbent) 138,620 48.28 write-ins scattering 157 0.05 9,704 3.38 287,101 100 References Category:Wisconsin Supreme Court elections supreme court Category:April 1917 in the United States Wisconsin