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Francis Biddle
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1939
Francis Biddle , Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Francis Beverley Biddle (May 9, 1886 – October 4, 1968) was an American lawyer and judge who was the United States Attorney General during World War II. He also served as the primary American judge during the Nuremberg trials following World War II and a United States circuit judge of the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Education
- Harvard UniversityB.A., 1909
- Harvard Law SchoolLL.B., 1911
Career
Personal secretary, Hon. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Supreme Court of the United States, 1911-1912; Private practice, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1912-1938; U.S. Army, 1918; Special assistant U.S. attorney, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1922-1926; Chairman, National Labor Relations Board, 1934-1935; Chief counsel, Special Congressional Committee to Investigate the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1938-1939; Solicitor general of the United States, 1940; Director, Immigration and Naturalization Service, U.S. Department of Justice, 1940; Attorney General of the United States, 1941-1945; U.S. representative to International Military Tribunal--Nuremburg Trials, 1945-1946; Chairman, Americans for Democratic Action, 1950-1953
Biography
Francis Beverley Biddle (May 9, 1886 – October 4, 1968) was an American lawyer and judge who was the United States Attorney General during World War II. He also served as the primary American judge during the Nuremberg trials following World War II and a United States circuit judge of the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
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