Item description for RARE JOHN & ROBERT KENNEDY JOINT-SIGNED JUDICIAL APPOINTMENT ROBERT AINSWORTH JR

Up for your Consideration is this Very Rare One of a Kind John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy Joint-Signed Judicial Appointment for Judge Robert A. Ainsworth Jr. Document Jointly Signed nearly a Year before the Cuban Missile Crisis took shape in October 1962. Signed at the conclusion by John F. Kennedy and countersigned by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Dated September 22, 1961. Document in Original Custom Frame. Measures approximately 21 1/2" Inches in Height X 24 1/2" Wide and is in Fine Vintage Condition with the usual signs of age and wear. The gold foil seal is crisp and intact. Only three Kennedy double-signed documents have come to auction over the last decade, with all three being presidential pardons. Kennedy signed this appointment on the same day he signed the bill that established the Peace Corps as a permanent federal agency. Robert Andrew Ainsworth, Jr., was appointed by President John F. Kennedy to serve as a judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in 1961, and he held that position until August 31, 1966. On June 28, 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated Judge Ainsworth to a fill a new seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that was created by 90 Stat. 75. Judge Ainsworth held that seat until his death on December 22, 1981.

Robert Andrew Ainsworth, Jr. (May 10, 1910 – December 22, 1981), was an attorney, politician, and judge in New Orleans, Louisiana. An opponent of Mayor Robert Sidney Maestri's "Old Regulars" Democratic organization, he worked in the 1946 campaign in which Chep Morrison, running as a "Reformer," unseated Maestri in the primary and then began a 15-year period as mayor. Ainsworth also worked in the Hale Boggs congressional campaign in 1946 and in Boggs' unsuccessful gubernatorial race in 1952. Judge Ainsworth was born in 1910 in Gulfport, Mississippi. He received an LL.B. from Loyola University New Orleans School of Law in 1932 and was in private practice in New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1932 to 1961. In 1944, he served as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy during World War II. He was a member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1952 to 1961, serving as President Pro Tempore from 1952 to 1956 and from 1960 to 1961.

His Alma Mater hosts the annual "Judge Robert A. Ainsworth, Jr. Memorial Lecture Series." On February 4, 2002, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, participated in the event. She noted in her speech that "Judge Ainsworth merits a place in history first as a state senator who resisted blatant segregationist bills, then as a wise and good judge whose moderate, consistent, and forward-looking views helped to keep the Fifth Circuit steady during the tumultuous 1960s. It is altogether fitting that his friends and colleagues have chosen to remember him by founding and maintaining this Ainsworth Memorial Lecture Series here at his alma mater."

Ainsworth was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, east of New Orleans, to Robert Ainsworth, Sr., and the former Katherine Wursch. He attended St. Aloysius High School and graduated in 1928 from Jesuit High School and in 1932 from Loyola University Law School, all Roman Catholic institutions located in New Orleans. In 1934, he married the former Elizabeth Hiern, and the couple had three children, Robert, III, Elizabeth, and Jill Leslie Ainsworth.

Upon his graduation from law school, Ainsworth began the practice of criminal law. During World War II, he served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy. In 1940, he managed the successful gubernatorial campaign of Sam Houston Jones of Lake Charles, who unseated Earl Kemp Long after a single year in office; Long returned to re-claim the governorship in 1952. In 1949, Ainsworth won a special election as a state senator for uptown New Orleans. He assumed the seat in 1950 (though some sources say 1952) and served for eleven years. As a senator, he worked to establish the Louisiana Legislative Council.

In 1961, he left the state Senate to become judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson elevated Ainsworth to the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th circuit. Ainsworth was appointed by Chief Justice Earl Warren in 1967 as chairman of the Judicial Conference over all Federal Judges. He was re-appointed by Chief Justice Warren Berger. He was a circuit judge until his death at the age of seventy-one at Southern Baptist Hospital in New Orleans during treatment for a heart attack. He is interred at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans. ALL SALES ARE FINAL unless an item is grossly misrepresented. Any extremes in condition will be noted in the items description. Items are described as accurately as possible. Please ask questions BEFORE you Commit to Buy.

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