• Supreme Court of the United States

  Judge

  1938 – 1980 · 42 yrsAppointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt

Career

• Solicitor general of the United States

  1935 – 1938 · 3 yrs

• General counsel

  Reconstruction Finance Corporation

  1932 – 1935 · 3 yrs

• General counsel

  Federal Farm Board

  1929 – 1932 · 3 yrs

• U.S. Army first lieutenant

  Intelligence Division

  1917 – 1918 · 1 yr

• State representative

  Kentucky

  1912 – 1916 · 4 yrs

• Private practice

  1910 – 1929 · 19 yrs

Education