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Biddle, Francis Beverley

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Biddle, Francis Beverley, 1886–1968, U.S. Attorney General (1941–45), b. Paris, France, of American parents. Secretary to Associate Justice O. W. Holmes (1912), he became a successful corporation lawyer. He served as National Labor Relations Board chairman (1934–35) and as appellate judge (1939–40) before succeeding Robert H. Jackson Jackson, Robert Houghwout , 1892–1954, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1941–54), b. Spring Creek, Pa. Despite the fact that he did not have a law degree, he was admitted to the bar in 1913 after a brief period of study at Albany law school.
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 as Solicitor General (1940) and as Attorney General. Biddle was (1945–46) a U.S. judge for the trial of war criminals at Nuremberg.

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See his autobiographical A Casual Past (1961) and In Brief Authority (1962).



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