Constellation Similarity Assertions

Daniel Hubbard Pollitt was born in Washington, D.C., in 1921 to Mima Riddiford and Basil Hubbard Pollitt. Both parents were lawyers in the New Deal administration of President Franklin Roosevelt and committed to principles of social justice. In 1939, Pollitt set off to college at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in government. In 1943, he joined the United States Marine Corps and served as an infantry officer in the Pacific theater during World War II. After the war ended, Pollitt studied law at Cornell University, earning a LL.B. degree and graduating with honors in 1949.

Pollitt worked for a year in the private law firm of McFarland and Sellers, followed by another year as law clerk to Judge Henry W. Edgerton of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From 1951 to 1955, he became associated with a Washington, D.C., law firm headed by two New Deal Democratic progressives, Joseph L. Rauh Jr. and John Silard. Working in this firm as a junior attorney during the McCarthy era, Pollitt gained experience in constitutional law cases as he assisted in the representation of controversial figures accused of subversive activities, including the playwrights Lillian Hellman and Arthur Miller, who had been called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) concerning their perceived Communist associations.

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