Brownell, Herbert, 1904-1996

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Dates:
Birth 1904-02-20
Death 1996-05-01
English,

Biographical notes:

Lawyer, politician.

From the description of Reminiscences of Herbert Brownell : oral history, 1971. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122451268

From the description of Reminiscences of Herbert Brownell : oral history, 1977. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481064

From the description of Reminiscences of Herbert Brownell : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122528080

From the description of Reminiscences of Herbert Brownell : oral history, 1977. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122574019

Lawyer; New York, N.Y. Born 1904.

From the description of Oral history interivew with Herbert Brownell, 1993 July 21 and Aug. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80698938

Herbert Brownell, Jr. (1904-1996) served as United States Attorney General under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1958. His establishment of a Civil Rights division within the Justice Department was a Republican party operative. He was a legal advisor to President Eisenhower on the Little Rock Central High School desegregation crisis.

From the description of Brownell, Herbert, 1904-1996 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10570292

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Subjects:

  • African Americans
  • Civil rights
  • Corporation law
  • Internal security
  • International and municipal law
  • Law
  • Lawyers
  • New Deal, 1933-1939
  • Politicians
  • Presidents
  • Presidents
  • Presidents
  • School integration
  • Treaty-making power

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  • Arkansas--Little Rock (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • New York (State)--New York (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)

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