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Gilbert Bettman: Information from Answers.com (132 words) |
 | Gilbert Bettman was an American politician of the Ohio Republican party. |
| In 1932, Bettman ran for the office of U.S. senator from Ohio. |
| From January 1941 to July 1942, Bettman served as a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. |
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| Bettman's public life was a continuation of a tradition established by his father, Gilbert Bettman Sr., a Cincinnati City Council member, state attorney general and justice on the Ohio Supreme Court. |
| Instead Bettman found himself slogging through the Philippines, then served as a forward observer in the battle for control of Okinawa, directing artillery fire onto the ridge he and the Japanese army were sharing. |
| Attacked for overstepping his authority, Bettman issued a letter that outlined the legal framework for his actions, and said that as a citizen he felt he could not sit idly by. |
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