FRANCIS B. BIDDLE

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FULL NAME:
Francis Beverley Biddle 

BORN:
May 19, 1886;
Paris, France

DIED:
October 4, 1968 (age 82);
Wellfleet, Massachusetts

EDUCATION:
Harvard University (BA, 1909)
Harvard Law School (LLB., 1911)

POLITICAL PARTY:
Democrat

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
1911-1912:
Personal Secretary to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
1912-1938:
Practiced Law in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1918:
U.S. Army
1922-1926:
Special Assistant, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
1934-1935:
Chairman, National Labor Relations Board
1938-1939:
Chief Counsel, Special Congressional Committee to Investigate the Tennessee Valley Authority
1939-1940:
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
1940:
Solicitor General of the United States,
1940:
Director, Immigration and Naturalization Service
1941-1945:
U.S. Attorney General
1945-1946:
U.S. Representative to the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal
1950-1953:
Chairman, Americans for Democratic Action

RESOURCES:
Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
Department of Justice
Department of Justice
UVA Miller Center
Wikipedia

OBITUARY:
New York Times

PORTRAITS:

Department of Justice Portrait (Artist: George Biddle)
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