Thurman Arnold
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Thurman Wesley Arnold (June 2, 1891 – November 7, 1969) was an American lawyer best known for his trust-busting campaign as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Department of Justice from 1938 to 1943. He later served as a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Before coming to Washington in 1938, Arnold was the mayor of Laramie, Wyoming and a professor at Yale Law School, where he took part in the legal realism movement and published two books: The Symbols of Government (1935) and The Folklore of Capitalism (1937). He also published The Bottlenecks of Business (1940).
Thurman Arnold | |
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Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia | |
In office March 18, 1943 – July 9, 1945 | |
Appointed by | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Preceded by | Wiley Rutledge |
Succeeded by | Bennett Champ Clark |
United States Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division | |
In office 1938–1943 | |
President | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Preceded by | Robert H. Jackson |
Succeeded by | Wendell Berge |
Personal details | |
Born | Thurman Wesley Arnold (1891-06-02)June 2, 1891 Laramie, Wyoming |
Died | November 7, 1969(1969-11-07) (aged 78) Alexandria, Virginia |
Education | Princeton University (AB) Harvard University (LLB) |