Martin Thomas Manton


Martin Thomas Manton was a United States federal judge in New York City, who resigned and served time in prison for accepting bribes while in office. In 1916 he was the youngest federal judge in the United States. Manton was the first federal judge to be convicted of bribery.

He was born on August 2, 1880. Manton graduated from Columbia Law School in 1901 and worked as a lawyer in private practice in Manhattan foryears. In 1915 he was the lawyer for Charles Becker in the Rosenthal murder trial.

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