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Frankfurter, Felix

(1882–1965) Supreme Court justice, presidential adviser; born in Vienna, Austria. He emigrated to the U.S.A. at age twelve and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1906. He briefly practiced law and served as an assistant district attorney in New York before joining the faculty at Harvard Law School (1914–39). While at Harvard, he served as a legal adviser to President Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference (1919). An early contributor to The New Republic, he helped found the American Civil Liberties Union (1920) and argued in favor of Sacco and Vanzetti's right to a new trial. He advised President Franklin D. Roosevelt on many New Deal programs and, in 1939, Roosevelt named him to the U.S. Supreme Court (1939–62). His tenure on the court tamed his liberalism. His opinions reflected his belief in judicial restraint: that the law should emanate from the people and the legislative process rather than the court. In 1963 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced with permission.
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