Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941

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Active 1885
Active 1936
Birth 1856-11-13
Death 1941-10-05
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Louis Dembitz Brandeis was a very important legal and political figure of the twentieth century culminating with his appointment to the United States Supreme Court.

From the description of Louis Dembitz Brandeis collection, 1858-1999. (Brandeis University Library). WorldCat record id: 276359610

Jurist.

From the description of Louis Dembitz Brandeis papers, 1926-1941. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 124036606

Attorney, Ass. Justice of the U.S. Supr. Ct., public servant. Harv. Law School, 1875-1878, LL.B., 1877. Lawyer, Warren & Brandeis, Boston, 1879-1897, senior partner, Brandeis, Dunbar & Nutter, Boston, 1897-1916. Assoc. Just. U.S. Supr. Ct., 1916-1939. "People's attorney" for Public Franchise League and Mass. State Bd. of Trade, 1897-1911. Author: Notes on Business Law, etc.

From the description of Papers of Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 1881-1966 (inclusive), 1916-1939 (bulk). (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 122411977

From the description of Papers, 1881-1966. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235705655

Supreme Court justice and national Zionist leader.

From the description of Louis Brandeis letter, 1908 Mar. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 312781429

From the description of Louis Brandeis letter, 1919 Mar. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 312463645

From the description of Louis Brandeis letter, 1934 Nov. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 312745035

From the description of Louis Brandeis correspondence, 1918-1936. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 312181314

From the description of Louis Brandeis letter, 1916 Mar. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 428465825

From the description of Louis Brandeis letter, 1937 Nov. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 320840186

From the description of Louis Brandeis letter, 1920 Nov. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 424501878

Supreme Court Justice.

From the description of Letters, 1936. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29852894

U.S. Supreme Court justice.

From the description of Letters, 1923 Jan. 25-1936 Nov. 3, Washington D.C., to Perry Walton, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 184903124

Louis Brandeis was an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court from 1916 to 1939.

From the description of Louis Brandeis autograph letter signed to Charles Eliot Norton, 1895 June 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 778562997

1856 Born, Louisville, Ky., November 13. 1874 1875 Student, Annen-Realschule, Dresden. 1875 1878 Harvard Law School (LL.B. in 1877) 1878 Admitted to the St. Louis Bar, November. 1879 1897 Lawyer, Warren & Brandeis, Boston. 1882 1883 Taught course in Evidence at Harvard Law School 1889 Admitted to the Bar of the United States Supreme Court. 1891 Married Alice G. Goldmark of New York, March 23. 1897 1916 Senior, Brandeis, Dunbar & Nutter, Boston. 1897 1911 "People's Attorney" for Public Franchise League and Massachusetts State Board of Trade. 1905 Unpaid Counsel for the New England Policy-Holders' Protective Committee. 1907 1913 Unpaid Counsel for William B. Lawrence in New Haven merger controversies. 1907 1914 Unpaid Counsel for the State in defending hours of labor and minimum wage statutes of Oregon, Illinois, Ohio, and California. 1910 Counsel for Collier's Weekly in Ballinger-Pinchot dispute. 1910 1911 Unpaid Counsel for Commercial Organizations in I.C.C. Advance Railroad Rate Case. 1910 1916 Unpaid Chairman, Arbitration Board, New York Garment Workers' strike, and under subsequent protocols. 1911 1915 Worker and adviser in Progressive Politics. 1912 Joined Zionist Movement. 1913 1914 Special I.C.C. Counsel in Five Per Cent Rate Case. 1916 Nominated for Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, January 28. 1916 Confirmed by Senate, 47 to 22, June 1. 1916 Took Oath of Office from Chief Justice Edward D. White, June 5. 1939 Retired, February 13. 1941 Died, Washington, D.C., October 5.

Selected Writings: Business law, 1892-1896 (Boston: MIT, 1896) Life insurance: the abuses and the remedies (Boston: Policy-holders Protective Committee, 1905) The New England transportation monopoly (Boston: Massachusetts Anti-merger League, 1908) Scientific management and railroads (New York: Engineering Magazine, 1912) Other people's money, and how the bankers use it (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1934) The social and economic views of Mr. Justice Brandeis (New York: Vanguard Press, 1930), ed. By Alfred Lief. Business: a profession (Boston: Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1933) The Curse of bigness: miscellaneous papers (New York: Viking Press, 1935), ed. by Osmond K. Fraenkel. Brandeis on Zionism (Washington, DC: Zionist Organization of America, 1942) The Unpublished opinions of Mr. Justice Brandeis (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1957), ed. By Alexander Bickel.

Also essays in law journals and other publications.

From the guide to the Papers, 1881-1966, (Harvard Law School Library, Harvard University)

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