FEDERAL JUDGE ABRAHAM LINCOLN MAROVITZ RECEIVES THE ISRAEL BOND 1968 MAN OF THE YEAR AWARD FROM JACOB M. ARVEY.Abraham Lincoln Marovitz (August 10, 1905 – March 17, 2001) was a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.Born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin to Orthodox Jewish parents who were Lithuanian immigrants, Marovitz grew up in the Maxwell Street area of Chicago, after his parents moved to Chicago in 1910.Marovitz spent his youth selling newspapers, delivering groceries and prizefighting. As a teenager, he also worked as an office boy for a law firm, where a partner encouraged him to attend law school (and agreed to fund his tuition), even though Marovitz did not have a college degree. "In those days, you didn't need a college degree to go to law school," Marovitz later said. "So that's how I wound up the only sitting federal judge who never went to college."Marovitz earned a law degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1925 at the age of 19, and he was at that point still 20 months too young to sit for the Illinois bar exam, which required all test-takers to be 21 years old.Marovitz took the exam when he turned 21, and passed it on his first try(WIKIPEDIA)
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