Leventhal, Harold, 1915-1979

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Dates:
Birth 1915-01-05
Death 1979-11-20

Biographical notes:

Lawyer and judge, of Washington, D.C.

From the description of Papers, 1932-1980 (bulk 1964-1979). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 34576609

Lawyer and jurist.

From the description of Harold Leventhal papers, 1932-1980 (bulk 1964-1979). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71069205

Biographical Note

1915, Jan. 5 Born, New York, N.Y. 1934 A.B., Columbia University, New York, N.Y. 1936 LL.B, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. Admitted to New York state bar 1936 1937 Law clerk, Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, United States Supreme Court 1938 Law clerk, Justice Stanley Forman Reed, United States Supreme Court 1938 1939 Staff member, Office of Solicitor General 1939 1940 Chief of litigation, bituminous coal division, Department of the Interior 1940 1943 Assistant general counsel, Office of Price Administration 1945 1946 Staff member, Justice Robert H. Jackson, Nuremberg War Crime Trials 1946 Admitted to the District of Columbia Bar 1946 1965 Member, Ginsburg & Leventhal and successor law firms, Washington, D.C. 1948 Married Kathryn Kumler Executive officer, task force on independent regulatory commissions for the Hoover Commission 1951 1952 Chief counsel, Office of Price Stabilization 1952 1965 General counsel, Democratic National Committee 1957 1962 Visiting lecturer, Yale Law School, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 1965 1979 Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit 1979, Nov. 20 Died, Washington, D.C.

From the guide to the Harold Leventhal Papers, 1932-1980, (bulk 1964-1979), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

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Subjects:

  • Administrative law
  • Administrative law
  • Christmas
  • Constitutional law
  • Constitutional law
  • Crèches (Nativity scenes)
  • Criminal law
  • Criminal law
  • Local transit
  • Local transit
  • Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949
  • Pageants
  • Pageants
  • Practice of law
  • Practice of law
  • Telephone
  • Telephone
  • War crime trials
  • War crime trials
  • Watergate Trial, Washington, D.C., 1973

Occupations:

  • Judges
  • Jurists
  • Lawyers
  • Lawyers

Places:

  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Washington (D.C.) (as recorded)
  • Germany (as recorded)
  • Washington (D.C.) (as recorded)

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