Editing Irvine Lenroot (section)

==Federal judicial service==

Lenroot was nominated by President [[Herbert Hoover]] on April 22, 1929, to an Associate Judge seat on the [[United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals]] vacated by Associate Judge [[Orion M. Barber]].<ref name="fjc.gov"/> He was confirmed by the [[United States Senate]] on May 17, 1929, and received his commission the same day.<ref name="fjc.gov"/> His service terminated on April 30, 1944, due to his retirement.<ref name="fjc.gov"/> He died on January 26, 1949, in Washington, D.C.<ref name="fjc.gov"/> He was interred in Greenwood Cemetery in Superior.<ref name="auto"/> The Associated Press report of his death began, "Former Senator Irvine L. Lenroot of Wisconsin, the man who might have been the 30th President of the United States, died Wednesday night."<ref>"Irvine Lenroot, Ex-Senator, Dies", ''Charleston'' (W.Va.) ''Daily Mail'', January 27, 1949, p. 5.</ref>