Stanley Forman Reed

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Stanley Forman Reed
Stanley Forman Reed, c. 1946
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
In office
January 31, 1938 – February 25, 1957[1]
Nominated byFranklin D. Roosevelt
Preceded byGeorge Sutherland
Succeeded byCharles Evans Whittaker
23rd Solicitor General of the United States
In office
March 25, 1935 – January 30, 1938
PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt
Preceded byJames Crawford Biggs
Succeeded byRobert H. Jackson
Personal details
Born(1884-12-31)December 31, 1884
Minerva, Kentucky, U.S.
DiedApril 2, 1980(1980-04-02) (aged 95)
Huntington, New York, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
Winifred Elgin
(m. 1908)
Children2
EducationKentucky Wesleyan College (BA)
Yale University (BA)
University of Virginia
Columbia University
University of Paris

Stanley Forman Reed (December 31, 1884 – April 2, 1980) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an

U.S. Solicitor General
from 1935 to 1938.

Born in Mason County, Kentucky, Reed established a legal practice in Maysville, Kentucky, and won election to the Kentucky House of Representatives. He attended law school but did not graduate, making him the latest-serving Supreme Court Justice who did not graduate from law school. After serving in the United States Army during World War I, Reed emerged as a prominent corporate attorney and took positions with the Federal Farm Board and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He took office as Solicitor General in 1935, and defended the constitutionality of several New Deal policies.

After the retirement of Associate Justice George Sutherland, President Franklin D. Roosevelt successfully nominated Reed to the Supreme Court. Reed served until his retirement in 1957, and was succeeded by Charles Evans Whittaker. Reed wrote the majority opinion in cases such as Smith v. Allwright, Gorin v. United States, and Adamson v. California. He authored dissenting opinions in cases such as Illinois ex rel. McCollum v. Board of Education.

Early life and education

Reed was born in the small town of Minerva in Mason County, Kentucky on December 31, 1884, the son of wealthy physician John Reed and Frances (Forman) Reed. The Reeds and Formans traced their history to the earliest colonial period in America, and these family heritages were impressed upon young Stanley at an early age.[4][5][6][7] At the age of 10, Reed moved with his family to Maysville, Kentucky where his father practiced medicine. The family resided downtown in a prominent home known as Phillips' Folly.

Reed attended

St. Elmo Hall) and Columbia University, but did not obtain a law degree.[4][5][6] Reed married the former Winifred Elgin in May 1908. The couple had two sons, John A. and Stanley Jr., who both became attorneys.[6][7] In 1909 he traveled to France and studied at the Sorbonne as an auditeur bénévole.[4][5][6][7][a]

Career

After his studies in France, Reed returned to Kentucky. He was admitted to the bar in 1910 and practiced in Maysville for nine years. He was elected to the

Holstein cattle in his spare time.[6][7]
After the war, Reed practiced as a partner in the Maysville firm of Worthington, Browning and Reed.

Federal Farm Bureau

Reed's work for a number of large agricultural interests in Kentucky made him a nationally known authority on the law of agricultural cooperatives. It was this reputation which brought him to the attention of federal officials.[7]

Agriculture Marketing Act. The act established and was administered by the Federal Farm Board.[8][9] The crash of the stock market in late October 1929 led the Federal Farm Board's general counsel to resign. Although Reed was a Democrat, his reputation as a corporate agricultural lawyer led President Hoover to appoint him the new general counsel of the Federal Farm Board on November 7, 1929. Reed served as general counsel until December 1932.[4][5][6][7][10]

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

In December 1932, the general counsel of the

Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Eugene Meyer, had pressed Hoover to take a more active approach to ameliorating the Great Depression. Hoover finally relented and submitted legislation. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act was signed into law on January 22, 1932, but its operations were kept secret for five months. Hoover feared both political attacks from Republicans and that publicity about which corporations were receiving RFC assistance might disrupt the agency's attempts to keep companies financially viable. When Congress passed legislation in July 1932 forcing the RFC to make public the companies that received loans, the resulting political embarrassment led to the resignation of the RFC's president and his successor as well as other staff turnover at the agency.[11] Franklin D. Roosevelt's election as president in November 1932 led to further staff changes. On December 1, 1932, the RFC's general counsel resigned, and Hoover appointed Reed to the position. Roosevelt, impressed with Reed's work and needing someone who knew the agency, its staff and its operations, kept Reed on. Reed mentored and protected the careers of a number of young lawyers at RFC, many of whom became highly influential in the Roosevelt administration: Alger Hiss, Robert H. Jackson, Thomas Gardiner Corcoran, Charles Edward Wyzanski Jr. (later an important federal district court judge), and David Cushman Coyle.[4][5][6][7][8][12]

During his tenure at the RFC, Reed influenced two major national policies. First, Reed was instrumental in setting up the

Executive Order 6340 the next day, which legally established the CCC. The brilliance of the CCC was that the government would hold surplus cotton as security for the loan. If cotton prices rose above the value of the loan, farmers could redeem their cotton, pay off the loan and make a profit. If prices stayed low, the farmer still had enough money to live as well as plant next year. The plan worked so well that it became the basis for the New Deal's entire agricultural program.[13]

Second, Reed helped to successfully defend the administration's gold policy, saving the nation's monetary policy as well. Deflation had caused the value of the United States dollar to fall nearly 60 percent. But federal law still permitted Americans and foreign citizens to redeem paper money and coins in gold at its pre-Depression value, causing a run on the gold reserves of the United States. Taking the United States off the gold standard would stop the run. It would also further devalue the dollar, making American goods less expensive and more attractive to foreign buyers. In a series of moves,[14] Roosevelt took the nation off the gold standard in March and April 1933, causing the dollar's value to sink. But additional deflation was needed. One way to do this was to raise the price of gold, but federal law required the Treasury to buy gold at its high, pre-Depression price. President Roosevelt asked the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to buy gold above the market price to further devalue the dollar. Although Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. believed the government lacked the authority to buy gold, Reed joined with Treasury general counsel Herman Oliphant to provide critical legal support for the plan.

The additional deflation helped stabilize the economy during a critical period where bank runs were common.[13][15][16]

Reed's help with Roosevelt's gold policies was not yet finished. On June 5, 1933, Congress passed a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) voiding clauses in all public and private contracts permitting redemption in gold.[17] Hundreds of angry creditors sued to overturn the law. The case finally reached the U.S. Supreme Court. United States Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings asked Reed to join him in writing the government's brief for the Court and assisting him during oral argument. Reed's help was critical, for the high court was resolutely conservative when it came to the sanctity of contracts.

On February 2, 1935, the Supreme Court made the unprecedented announcement that it was delaying its ruling by a week. The court shocked the nation again by announcing a second delay on February 9. Finally, on February 18, 1935, the Supreme Court held in Norman v. Baltimore & Ohio R. Co., 294 U.S. 240 (1935), that the government had the power to abrogate private contracts but not public ones. However, the majority said that since there had been no showing that contractors with the federal government had been harmed, no payments would be made.[13][15][16]

Solicitor General

Reed's invaluable assistance in defending the federal government's interests in "the

Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, 295 U.S. 495 (1935) (invalidating the National Industrial Recovery Act) and United States v. Butler, 297 U.S. 1 (1936) (invalidating the Agricultural Adjustment Act).[4][5][15][18][19][20][21]

1937 proved to be a banner year for the Solicitor General. Reed argued and won such major cases as

Steward Machine Company v. Davis, 301 U.S. 548 (1937) (upholding the taxing power of the Social Security Act). By the end of 1937, Reed was winning most of his economic cases and had a reputation as being one of the strongest Solicitors General since the creation of the office in 1870.[4][5][15][18][20][21]

Supreme Court

Justice Reed having received his commission to the court (January 27, 1938)

Nomination and confirmation

On January 15, 1938, President Roosevelt nominated Reed as an

associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States to succeed retiring justice George Sutherland.[22] Many in the nation's capital worried about the nomination fight. Willis Van Devanter, one of the Court's conservative "Four Horsemen," had retired the previous summer. Roosevelt had nominated Senator Hugo Black as his replacement, and Black's nomination battle proved to be a long (seven days) and bitter one. To the relief of many, Reed's nomination was swift and generated little debate in the Senate. He was confirmed on January 25, 1938,[22] and sworn into office on January 31.[1] His successor as Solicitor General was Robert H. Jackson.[4][5][20][21][23] Reed is the last person to serve as a Supreme Court Justice without possessing a law degree.[24]

Stanley Reed spent 19 years on the Supreme Court. Within two years, he was joined on the bench by his mentor, Felix Frankfurter, and his protégé, Robert H. Jackson. Reed and Jackson held very similar views on national security issues and often voted together. Reed and Frankfurter also held similar views, and Frankfurter usually concurred with Reed. However, the two had significantly different writing styles, as Frankfurter offered lengthy, professorial discussions of the law, whereas Reed wrote terse opinions keeping to the facts of the case.[25][26]

Reed was considered a moderate and often provided the critical fifth vote in split rulings. He authored more than 300 opinions, and Chief Justice

Warren Burger said "he wrote with clarity and firmness...."[7] Reed was an economic progressive, and generally supported racial desegregation, civil liberties, trade union rights and economic regulation. On free speech, national security and certain social issues, however, Reed was generally a conservative. He often approved of federal (but not state or local) restrictions on civil liberties. Reed also opposed applying the Bill of Rights to the states via the 14th Amendment.[5][26][27]

Opinions

Portrait of Justice Stanley Forman Reed

Among Reed's more notable decisions are:[4][7][26]

  • United States v. Rock Royal Cooperative, Inc., 307 U.S. 533 (1939) – This was one of the first cases in which Reed wrote the majority opinion. The case was especially important to Reed because of his prior career as an attorney for agricultural cooperatives (Rock Royal was a milk producers co-op). Reed stuck closely to the facts in the case, quoting at length from the statute, regulations and agency order.[28]
  • Gorin v. United States, 312 U.S. 19 (1941) – Upheld several aspects of the Espionage Act of 1917
  • African American citizens by denying them the right to vote in a primary election. But in Smith v. Allwright, the issue came before the Court again. This time, the plaintiff alleged that the state, not the political party, had denied black citizens the right to vote. In an 8-to-1 decision authored by Reed, the Supreme Court overruled Grovey as wrongly decided. In ringing terms, Reed dismissed the state action question and declared that "the Court throughout its history has freely exercised its power to reexamine the basis of its constitutional decisions." The lone dissenter was Justice Roberts, who had written the majority opinion nine years earlier in Grovey.[29]
  • Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia, 328 U.S. 373 (1946) – In a 7-to-1 ruling, Reed applied the undue burden standard to a Virginia law which required separate but equal racial segregation
    in public transportation. Reed found that the law created an undue burden because uniformity of law was essential in certain interstate activities, such as transportation.
  • Adamson v. California, 332 U.S. 46 (1947) – Adamson was charged with murder but chose not to testify because he knew the prosecutor would ask him about his prior criminal record. Adamson argued that, because the prosecutor had drawn attention to his refusal to testify, Adamson's freedom against self-incrimination had been violated. Reed wrote that the rights guaranteed under the Fourteenth Amendment did not extend the protections of the Fifth Amendment to state courts. Reed felt that the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment did not intend to apply the Bill of Rights to states without limitation.
  • Establishment Clause. Reed disliked the phrase "wall of separation between church and state," and his dissent contains his famous dictum about the phrase: "A rule of law should not be drawn from a figure of speech."[5]
  • freedom of expression
    .
  • restrictive covenant (a covenant which had led Reed to recuse himself from a civil rights case in 1948). Nonetheless, Reed had written the majority decision in Smith v. Allwright and joined the majority in Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U.S. 629 (1950), which barred separate but equal racial segregation in law schools. Reed originally planned to write a dissent in Brown, but joined the majority before a decision was issued. Many observers, including Chief Justice Warren, believed a unanimous decision in Brown was necessary to win public acceptance for the decision.[6][21][30] Reed reportedly cried during the reading of the opinion.[31]

Hiss case

Reed's fame and notoriety did not stem solely from his judicial rulings, however. In 1949, Reed was caught up in the Alger Hiss case. Hiss, one of Reed and Frankfurter's protégés, was accused of espionage in August 1948. Hiss was tried in June 1949. Hiss's attorneys subpoenaed both Reed and Frankfurter. Although Reed ethically objected to having a sitting Associate Justice of the Supreme Court testify in a legal proceeding, he agreed to do so once he was subpoenaed. A number of observers strongly denounced Reed for refusing to disobey the subpoena.[32]

Dissents and retirement

By the mid-1950s, Justice Reed was dissenting more and more frequently from court rulings. His first full dissent had come in 1939, nearly a year after his tenure on the court began. Initially, his dissents "were only when, with Hughes, Brandeis, Stone or Roberts—like himself, lawyers of deep experience—he could not go along with what he considered the judge-made amendments of the Constitution implicit in the opinions of Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas and Frank Murphy, whom Roosevelt had sent to follow Black and Reed on the court."[33] But by 1955, Reed was dissenting much more frequently. Reed began to feel that the Court's jurisprudential center had shifted too far away from him and that he was losing his effectiveness.[4]

Retirement

Stanley Reed retired from the Supreme Court on February 25, 1957, citing old age. He was 73 years old.[34] Charles Evans Whittaker was appointed his successor.[35]

Reed led a fairly active retirement. In November 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower asked Reed to chair the newly formed United States Commission on Civil Rights. Eisenhower announced the nomination on November 7, but Reed turned down the nomination on December 3. Reed cited the impropriety of having a former Associate Justice sit on such a political body. But some media reports indicated that his appointment would have been opposed by civil rights activists, who felt Reed was not sufficiently progressive.[36]

Reed did, however, continue to serve the federal judiciary in a number of ways. For several years, he served as a temporary judge on a number of lower federal courts, particularly in the

District of Columbia. He also served in special capacities where judicial experience was needed, such as boundary disputes between states.[7][37]

In 1958 he was elected as a hereditary member of the New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati by right of his descent from Colonel David Forman.

Death

Plaque honoring Reed, located at the Mason County Courthouse in Kentucky

Increasingly frail and often ill, Stanley Reed and his wife lived at the Hilaire Nursing Home in Huntington, New York for the last few years of their lives.

Reed died there on April 2, 1980. He was survived by his wife and sons. He was interred in Maysville, Kentucky.

Although he retired eighteen years before

Stone Court and Vinson Court
.

Legacy

An extensive collection of Reed's personal and official papers, including his Supreme Court files, is archived at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, where they are open for research.

Quotations

  • "The United States is a constitutional democracy. Its organic law grants to all citizens a right to participate in the choice of elected officials without restriction by any state because of race." – Smith v. Allwright, 321 U.S. 649 (1944)[38]
  • "There is a recognized abstract principle, however, that may be taken as a postulate for testing whether particular state legislation in the absence of action by Congress is beyond state power. This is that the state legislation is invalid if it unduly burdens that commerce in matters where uniformity is necessary—necessary in the constitutional sense of useful in accomplishing a permitted purpose." – Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia, 328 U.S. 373 (1946)[39]
  • "Freedom of discussion should be given the widest possible range compatible with the essential requirement of the fair and orderly administration of justice. ... That a judge might be influenced by a desire to placate the accusing newspaper to retain public esteem and secure reelection at the cost of unfair rulings against an accused is too remote a possibility to be considered a clear and present danger to justice." – Pennekamp v. Florida, 328 U.S. 331 (1946)[40]
  • "A rule of law should not be drawn from a figure of speech." – Illinois ex rel. McCollum v. Board of Education, 333 U.S. 203 (1948) (commenting on the phrase "wall of separation between church and state")[41]
  • "Philosophers and poets, thinkers of high and low degree from every age and race have sought to expound the meaning of virtue, but each teaches his own conception of the moral excellence that satisfies standards of good conduct. Are the tests of the Puritan or the Cavalier to be applied, those of the city or the farm, the Christian or non-Christian, the old or the young? Does the Bill of Rights permit Illinois to forbid any reflection on the virtue of racial or religious classes which a jury or a judge may think exposes them to derision or obloquy, words themselves of quite uncertain meaning as used in the statute? I think not." – Beauharnais v. Illinois, 343 U.S. 250 (1952)[42]

Law clerks

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Auditeur bénévole ("volunteer listener" in French) is a status that indicates someone was permitted to audit courses as a non-degree student.

References

  1. ^ a b "Justices 1789 to Present". Washington, D.C.: Supreme Court of the United States. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Federal Judicial Center: Stanley Forman Reed". December 12, 2009. Archived from the original on May 13, 2009. Retrieved December 12, 2009.
  3. from the original on May 10, 2021. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
  4. ^ from the original on August 19, 2020. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  5. ^ from the original on August 19, 2020. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i "New Deal Pleas Won Reed Fame". The New York Times. January 16, 1938. p. 36. Archived from the original on August 18, 2020. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Goodman Jr., George (April 4, 1980). "Ex-Justice Stanley Reed, 95, Dead". The New York Times. p. A23. Archived from the original on August 20, 2020. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  8. ^ from the original on August 19, 2020. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  9. from the original on August 18, 2020. Retrieved May 21, 2020.
  10. ^ "Farm Board Counsel to Retire," The New York Times, November 8, 1929.
  11. Charles Gates Dawes
    , president of the RFC, resigned in June 1932 as it became apparent that congressional legislation would pass requiring public disclosure of which loans had been made to which companies. It was soon revealed that under his direction, the RFC had strongly favored only a few banks with Republican political connections. Atlee Pomerene, his successor, was forced to resign as well when Congress learned that he not only made loans to a bank which Dawes now led (the bank, with only $95 million in assets, received a loan of $90 million but still collapsed) but also made a loan to a bank for which he was a director. See: Schlesinger, The Age of Roosevelt: The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919–1933, 1957.
  12. ^ "Bogue Quits as R.F.C. Counsel Archived July 16, 2019, at the Wayback Machine," The New York Times, December 2, 1932; Nash, "Herbert Hoover and the Origins of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, December 1959; Mason, "The Political Economy of Reconstruction Finance Corporation Assistance During the Great Depression," Explorations in Economic History, April 2003; Olson, Saving Capitalism: The Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the New Deal, 1933–1940, 1988.
  13. ^ a b c Schlesinger, The Age of Roosevelt: The Coming of the New Deal, 1933–1935, 1958.
  14. ^ On March 6, 1933, the day after his inauguration, Roosevelt issued Executive Order 2039, which prohibited Americans from exporting and hoarding gold. Three days later, on March 9, 1933, Congress passed the
    Emergency Banking Act, which gave the Treasury
    the right to confiscate gold held by American citizens. On April 19, 1933, Roosevelt issued Executive Order 6111, confiscating the gold held by American citizens. See: Butkiewicz, "The Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the Gold Standard and the Banking Panic of 1933," Southern Economic Journal, 1999; and Eichengreen, Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919–1939, 1992.
  15. ^ a b c d "Stanley Reed Named Solicitor General," The New York Times, March 19, 1935.
  16. ^ a b Butkiewicz, "The Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the Gold Standard and the Banking Panic of 1933," Southern Economic Journal, 1999; Eichengreen, Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919–1939, 1992; Wicker, The Banking Panics of the Great Depression, 1996.
  17. ^ "This resolution provided the basis for devaluation and, indeed, for the nation's entire monetary policy." Schlesinger, The Age of Roosevelt: The Coming of the New Deal, 1933–1935, 1958, p. 255.
  18. ^ a b Schlesinger, The Age of Roosevelt: The Politics of Upheaval, 1935–1936, 1960.
  19. ^ Stark, "Belcher Test Case of Validity of NRA to Be Abandoned," The New York Times, March 26, 1935; Dinwoodey, "New NRA Test Case Covers Basic Issues," The New York Times, April 7, 1935; "Urges High Court to Give 7A Ruling," The New York Times, April 12, 1935; "Map Legal Battle for AAA Program," Associated Press, September 23, 1935; "Reed In Collapse," The New York Times, December 11, 1935.
  20. ^ a b c Hoffer, Hoffer, Hull and Hull, The Supreme Court: An Essential History, 2007.
  21. ^ a b c d Jost, The Supreme Court A-Z, 1998.
  22. ^ a b "Supreme Court Nominations (1789-Present)". Washington, D.C.: United States Senate. Retrieved February 16, 2022.
  23. ^ Wood, "Sutherland Quits Supreme Court Archived July 16, 2019, at the Wayback Machine," The New York Times, January 6, 1938; "Stanley Reed Goes to Supreme Court Archived July 16, 2019, at the Wayback Machine," The New York Times, January 16, 1938; "Jackson Is Named Solicitor General," The New York Times, January 28, 1938; "High Court Holds Challenge of NLRB Must Await Board Order Against Company," The New York Times, February 1, 1938.
  24. ^ "Senate Quickly Confirms Reed Nomination Archived August 18, 2020, at the Wayback Machine," The New York Times, January 26, 1938.
  25. ^ "Murphy, Jackson Inducted Together," The New York Times, January 19, 1940.
  26. ^ a b c Fassett, "The Buddha and the Bumblebee: The Saga of Stanley Reed and Felix Frankfurter," Journal of Supreme Court History, July 2003.
  27. ^ Huston, "High Court Bars Trials By States In Sedition Cases," The New York Times, April 3, 1956; Huston, "High Court Upholds Deportation and Denial of Bail to Alien Reds," The New York Times, March 11, 1952; Stark, "High Court Affirms Non-Red Taft Oath," The New York Times, May 9, 1950; Walz, "Decision Is 6 to 2," The New York Times, June 5, 1951.
  28. ^ United States v. Rock Royal, 307 U.S. 533 (1939).
  29. ^ Wood, "High Court Rules Negroes Can Vote In Texas Primary Archived July 16, 2019, at the Wayback Machine," The New York Times, April 4, 1944.
  30. ^ Kluger, Simple Justice, 1977; "3 Justice Step Out of 'Covenants' Case," Associated Press, January 16, 1948.
  31. from the original on November 8, 2021. Retrieved May 17, 2017.
  32. ^ Conklin, "Frankfurter, Reed Testify to Loyalty, Integrity of Hiss," The New York Times, June 23, 1949; "Justices on Stand Called 'Degrading'," Associated Press, July 18, 1949.
  33. ^ Krock, "Reed's Views Reflect Changing High Court," The New York Times, February 3, 1957.
  34. ^ Huston, "Justice Reed, 72, to Retire From the Supreme Court," The New York Times, February 1, 1957; "Justice Reed Retires From Supreme Court," The New York Times, February 26, 1957.
  35. ^ "Federal Judge in Missouri Named to Supreme Court," The New York Times, March 3, 1957.
  36. ^ Lewis, "Eisenhower Picks Civil Rights Unit," The New York Times, November 8, 1957; Lewis, "Reed Turns Down Civil Rights Post," The New York Times, December 4, 1957.
  37. ^ "Reed Given Court Task," United Press International, October 29, 1957; "Ex-Justice Reed to Hear Case," New York Times," March 4, 1958; "Potomac Pact Delayed Archived July 16, 2019, at the Wayback Machine," The New York Times, November 22, 1960.
  38. ^ Smith v. Allwright, 321 U.S. 649, 664 (1944).
  39. ^ Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia, 328 U.S. 373, 377 (1946).
  40. ^ Pennekamp v. Florida, 328 U.S. 331, 347 (1946), 349.
  41. ^ Illinois ex rel. McCollum v. Board of Education, 333 U.S. 203, 247 (1948).
  42. ^ Beauharnais v. Illinois, 343 U.S. 250, 284 (1952).
  43. ^ "Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP | Lawyers | David M. Becker". Cgsh.com. Archived from the original on February 17, 2013. Retrieved March 1, 2013.

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Preceded by Solicitor General of the United States
1935–1938
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Preceded by Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1938–1957
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