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Harlan Fiske Stone
Chief Justice of the United States · 1924–1941
Harlan Fiske Stone , Chief Justice of the United States. The Senate voted 48–36 on the nomination on Feb 4, 1925 (). Harlan Fiske Stone was an American attorney who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1925 to 1941 and then as the 12th chief justice of the United States from 1941 until his death in 1946. He also served as the U.S. Attorney General from 1924 to 1925 under President Calvin Coolidge, with whom he had attended Amherst College as a young man.
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Positions
- Attorney General1924-04-07–1925-03-01
- Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States1925-02-05–1941-07-03
- Chief Justice of the United States1941-07-03–1946-04-22
Senate confirmation votes
- Associate justice of the united states supreme court, which decision held that the motion to consider a nomination in open executive session involves a change in rules and requires a two-thirds vote to sustain it
68th Congress · 48–36 · Feb 4, 1925
Education
- Amherst CollegeB.A., 1894
- Amherst CollegeM.A., 1897
- Columbia Law SchoolLL.B., 1898
Career
Faculty, Columbia Law School, 1898-1905, 1910-1923; dean, 1910-1923; Clerk in private practice, New York City, 1898-1899; Private practice, New York City, 1905-1910; Member, War Department Board of Inquiry, 1918-1919; Attorney General of the United States, 1924; Presiding officer, Conference of Senior Circuit Judges (now Judicial Conference of the United States), 1941-1945
Biography
Harlan Fiske Stone was an American attorney who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1925 to 1941 and then as the 12th chief justice of the United States from 1941 until his death in 1946. He also served as the U.S. Attorney General from 1924 to 1925 under President Calvin Coolidge, with whom he had attended Amherst College as a young man.
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