It is always well to get near to men of genius.

Supreme Court and Moody was confirmed December 17 1906. New Jersey (1908) where he held that the Fifth Amendment's protection against compulsory self-incrimination did not apply to cases presented in state courts made him hard to pigeonhole. He died in Haverhill Massachusetts July 2 1917.

William Henry Moody (December 23 1853 – July 2 1917) was an American politician and jurist who held positions in all three branches of the Government of the United States.