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8 unusual facts about Felix Frankfurter


Bureau of Insular Affairs

Future Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter served briefly as a law officer for the bureau beginning in 1911.

Ella Winter

She met the U.S. journalist and 'muckraker' Lincoln Steffens at the Versailles Conference, where she was secretary to US Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter.

Emory Buckner

While in law school, he established a close friendship with Felix Frankfurter which would prove to be a lifelong friendship.

Franklin D. Roosevelt's record on civil rights

Some of his closest political associates, such as Felix Frankfurter, Bernard Baruch and Samuel I. Rosenman, were Jewish.

Herbert Croly

His political philosophy influenced many leading progressives including Theodore Roosevelt, as well as his close friends Judge Learned Hand and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter.

James R. Browning

Despite receiving a "Not Qualified" rating from the American Bar Association and publicized opposition from sitting Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, Browning was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 14, 1961, and received his commission on September 18, 1961.

MANual Enterprises v. Day

Justice Felix Frankfurter suffered a stroke several months after hearing oral argument in the case, and did not participate in its decision.

Memoirs of Hecate County

The case went to the Supreme Court in 1948, where the decision was upheld 4–4 after the disqualification of Felix Frankfurter.


Ideological leanings of U.S. Supreme Court justices

President Dwight Eisenhower appointed Earl Warren to be Chief Justice in 1953, and both graphs indicate that the Court then turned in a more liberal direction as Warren grew substantially more liberal and especially when he was joined by strong liberal justices William Brennan, Arthur Goldberg, Abe Fortas, and Thurgood Marshall (though Justices Black and Felix Frankfurter became more conservative over time).

Joseph Tepper

He was an active portrait painter well into his 70s and many famous people were among his subjects including Justices Brandeis and Frankfurter of the US Supreme Court, Professors George Lyman Kittredge and Paul Freund of Harvard University, Cardinal Stritch, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Hayim Bialik, Ahad Ha-Am, Henrietta Szold, and many more.

Pennsylvania v. Nelson

The Case was argued in front of the Warren Court whose members were: Earl Warren; Hugo Black; Stanley Reed; Felix Frankfurter; William O. Douglas; Harold Burton; Tom C. Clark; Sherman Minton; and John Marshall Harlan II.

The Business of the Supreme Court

The Business of the Supreme Court: A Study in the Federal Judicial System (1928) is a book published by Felix Frankfurter (future U.S. Supreme Court justice) and his former student James McCauley Landis.

William Joseph Campbell

When Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter died in 1965, many thought Campbell was certain to be appointed to the Court by President Lyndon B. Johnson.


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