Adolph A. Hoehling, Jr.

Adolph August Hoehling Jr. (November 3, 1868 – February 17, 1941) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

Education and career

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Hoehling was the son of Annie Tilghman Hoehling (1841–1923) and Adolph A. Hoehling (1839–1920), a rear admiral and doctor in the United States Navy's medical corps. The younger Hoehling attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Lehigh University. He received a Bachelor of Laws from Columbian University School of Law (now George Washington University Law School) in 1889, and a Master of Laws from the same institution in 1890.

Federal judicial service

Hoehling was nominated by President Warren G. Harding on June 6, 1921, to an Associate Justice seat on the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (now the United States District Court for the District of Columbia) vacated by Associate Justice Ashley Mulgrave Gould. When Hoehling confirmed Daugherty's story, he indicated that Daugherty, then serving as United States Attorney General, asked him to administer the oath at the Willard Hotel. According to Hoehling, he did not question Daugherty's reason for requesting a second oath taking, but assumed it was to resolve any doubt about whether the first swearing in was valid, since an oath for a federal office had been administered by Coolidge's father, a Vermont notary public and justice of the peace.

Later career and death

After his resignation from the federal bench, Hoehling returned to private practice in Washington, D.C. He died in Washington, D.C., on February 17, 1941, and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, Section West, Site 155B.

Family

On June 9, 1906, Hoehling married Louise Gilbert Carrington (1882–1968) of New Jersey. They were the parents of three children.