About Fred H. Caplan
Lived 1914 – 2004 (aged 89). Fred H. Caplan was an American politician.
Fred Harry Caplan (December 3, 1914 – March 4, 2004) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia from 1962 to 1980.
Born in Asheville, North Carolina, Caplan graduated from West Virginia University and the University of Richmond School of Law. He served in the United States Army in the Pacific theatre of World War II. Afterwards, he entered private practice in Clarksburg, West Virginia, in association with his brother Howard. Caplan was twice elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates, and also served as an assistant attorney general and as chair of the Public Service Commission before being appointed to a seat on the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals vacated by the death of Leslie E. Given. After retiring from the court, Caplan served for a time as chair of the West Virginia Ethics Commission.
Caplan died in an Asheville hospital at the age of 89.
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Fred H. Caplan was born on 3 December 1914.
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Fred H. Caplan died on 4 March 2004.
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