A judge has rejected an aspiring biographer’s request to unseal the 89-year-old divorce records of a deceased decorated veteran, attorney and state lawmaker, saying the writer’s work did not fit exceptions to statutory rules that barred general public access to matrimonial proceedings for 100 years.

Christopher Madsen of Santa Barbara, Calif. is writing on the life and times of Holland Sackett Duell, an avid yachtsman who fought with distinction in World War I and served in the New York State Assembly and Senate, before dying in 1942 at age 61.

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