[1] Born in Fredericksburg, Washington County, Indiana, Roll received an A.B.
[2] He was elected to the Indiana Supreme Court in the Democratic wave of 1930.
[1] Roll authored two important opinions with "noted political repercussions", one denying a recount to 1938 U.S. Senate candidate Raymond E. Willis, and the other striking down a 1941 legislative effort to diminish the powers of Governor Henry F.
[1] Before and after his service on the Supreme Court of Indiana he engaged in private law practice.
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