Clarence Charles Newcomer

Clarence Charles Newcomer (January 18, 1923 – August 22, 2005) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for more than 33 years. Education and career Newcomer was born in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, to Clarence S. and Clara Charles Newcomer. He graduated from Mount Joy High School in 1941. Newcomer entered the V-12 Navy College Training Program, and was a United States Naval Reserve Lieutenant of an amphibious landing craft in the Pacific Theater during World War II, from 1943 to 1946. During that time he earned an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1944, where he was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity. He then received a Juris Doctor from Dickinson School of Law (now Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson Law) in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1948. He married Jane Moyer Martin of Lancaster on October 2, 1948, with whom he had three daughters.