{{Short description|American judge (1922–2020)}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Carl Olaf Bue Jr. | honorific_suffix = | image = Carl_Olaf_Bue_Jr.png | alt = | caption = | office = [[Senior status|Senior Judge]] of the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas]] | term_start = September 2, 1987 | term_end = December 24, 2020 | office1 = Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas]] | term_start1 = October 15, 1970 | term_end1 = September 2, 1987 | appointer1 = [[List of federal judges appointed by Richard Nixon|Richard Nixon]] | predecessor1 = [[Joe McDonald Ingraham]] | successor1 = [[Kenneth M. Hoyt]] | pronunciation = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1922|03|27}} | birth_place = [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2020|12|24|1922|03|27}} | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | citizenship = | party = | other_party = | height = | spouse = | partner = | relations = | children = | parents = | mother = | father = | relatives = | education = [[Northwestern University]] ([[Bachelor of Philosophy|PhB]])<br>[[University of Texas]] ([[Bachelor of Laws|LLB]]) | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | known_for = | salary = | net_worth = | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = <!--Embedded templates / Footnotes--> | footnotes = }} '''Carl Olaf Bue Jr.''' (March 27, 1922 – December 24, 2020) was a [[United States federal judge|United States district judge]] of the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas]].
==Education and career==
Born in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], Bue received a [[Bachelor of Philosophy]] degree from [[Northwestern University]] in 1951 and a [[Bachelor of Laws]] from the [[University of Texas School of Law]] in 1954. He served as a captain in the [[United States Army]] Adjutant General's Department, during [[World War II]], from 1942 to 1946. He was in private practice at [[Royston Rayzor]] in [[Houston]], [[Texas]], from 1954 to 1970.<ref name="auto">{{FJC Bio|312|nid=1378526|name=Carl Olaf Bue Jr.<!--(1922–)-->}}</ref>
==Federal judicial service==
On August 11, 1970, Bue was nominated by President [[Richard Nixon]] to a seat on the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas]] vacated by Judge [[Joe McDonald Ingraham]]. Bue was confirmed by the [[United States Senate]] on October 13, 1970, and received his commission on October 15, 1970. He assumed [[senior status]] on September 2, 1987.<ref name="auto"/> He died on December 24, 2020, aged 98.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-12-24 |title=Judge Carl Bue Obituary - Houston, TX |url=https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/houston-tx/judge-carl-bue-9965358 |access-date=2021-01-12 |website=Digital Memory |language=en}}</ref>
==See also== * [[List of United States federal judges by longevity of service]]
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==Sources== * {{cite web|url=https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/houpub/00065/hpub-00065.html|title=Judge Carl O. Bue, Jr. Papers: An Inventory of His Records at the Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Library|publisher=[[University of Texas]]}} {{s-start}} {{s-legal}} {{s-bef|before=[[Joe McDonald Ingraham]]}} {{s-ttl|title={{nowrap|Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas]]}}|years=1970–1987}} {{s-aft|after=[[Kenneth M. Hoyt]]}} {{s-end}}
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