Guy Leverne Fake

Guy Leverne Fake
Guy Leverne Fake
Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
	In office; February 21, 1951 – September 23, 1957
Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
	In office; 1948–1951
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Phillip Forman
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
	In office; February 12, 1929 – February 21, 1951
Appointed by	Calvin Coolidge
Preceded by	James William McCarthy
Succeeded by	Richard Hartshorne
Personal details
Born	Guy Leverne Fake; November 15, 1879; Cobleskill, New York
Died	September 23, 1957 (aged 77); Rutherford, New Jersey
Education	New York University School of Law (LL.B.)

Guy Leverne Fake (November 15, 1879 – September 23, 1957) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Education and career[edit]

Born in Cobleskill, New York, Fake lived in Rutherford, New Jersey from the age of one.^[1] He served in the United States Army during the Spanish–American War in 1898. He received a Bachelor of Laws from New York University School of Law in 1904, and held a private practice in Rutherford from 1904 to 1907. He was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly from 1907 to 1908, and a district court judge of the Second Judicial District of Bergen County, New Jersey from 1909 to 1924. He was a New Jersey Supreme Court Commissioner in 1926.^[2]

On February 4, 1929, Fake was nominated by President Calvin Coolidge to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey vacated by Judge James William McCarthy. Fake was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 12, 1929, and received his commission the same day. He served as Chief Judge from 1948 to 1951, and assumed senior status on February 21, 1951.^[2] He served in that capacity until his death of a heart attack on September 23, 1957, in his home in Rutherford.^[1]

^ ^a ^b "Judge Guy Fake Of Jersey Dead; Retired Chief of Federal District Court Opposed New Deal, Income Tax", The New York Times, September 25, 1957. Accessed November 19, 2017. "Rutherford, N.J., Sept. 24--Federal Judge Guy Laverne Fake, former chief of the United States District Court in New Jersey, died last night in his home, 292 Montross Avenue, of a heart attack. He was 77 years old."
^ ^a ^b Guy Leverne Fake at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

Legal offices
Preceded by James William McCarthy	Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey 1929–1951	Succeeded by Richard Hartshorne
Preceded by Office established	Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey 1948–1951	Succeeded by Phillip Forman