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Arthur Goldberg

Arthur Goldberg
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United States Ambassador to the United Nations
In office
July 28, 1965 – June 24, 1968
President Lyndon Johnson
Preceded by Adlai Stevenson (II)
Succeeded by George Ball
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
In office
September 28, 1962 – July 26, 1965
Nominated by John F. Kennedy
Preceded by Felix Frankfurter
Succeeded by Abe Fortas
9th United States Secretary of Labor
In office
January 21, 1961 – September 20, 1962
President John F. Kennedy
Preceded by James Mitchell
Succeeded by Willard Wirtz
Personal details
Born Arthur Joseph Goldberg
(1908-08-08)August 8, 1908
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died January 19, 1990(1990-01-19) (aged 81)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Dorothy Kurgans
Children 2
Education Crane College
DePaul University
Northwestern University (LLB)

Arthur Joseph Goldberg (August 8, 1908 – January 19, 1990) was an American statesman and jurist who served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor, Supreme Court Justice and Ambassador to the United Nations.

Goldberg was born and raised on the West Side of Chicago, the youngest of eight children of Rebecca Perlstein and Joseph Goldberg, Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire. His paternal line derived from a shtetl called Zenkhov, in Ukraine. (His family did not originate from the Polish shtetl of Oświęcim (Auschwitz), as some have claimed.) Goldberg's father, a produce peddler, died in 1916, forcing Goldberg's siblings to quit school and go to work to support the family. As the youngest child, Goldberg was allowed to continue school, graduating from high school at the age of 16. Goldberg attended several colleges before graduating from Northwestern University in 1930 with a law degree.

Goldberg's interest in the law was sparked by the noted murder trial in 1923 of Leopold and Loeb, two wealthy young Chicagoans who were spared the death penalty with the help of their high-powered defense attorney, Clarence Darrow. Goldberg later pointed to the case as inspiration for his opposition to the death penalty on the bench, since he had seen how inequality of social status could lead to unfair application of the death penalty.

In 1931, Goldberg married Dorothy Kargans. They had one daughter, Barbara Goldberg Cramer, and one son, Robert M. Goldberg (an attorney in Anchorage, Alaska). He was the uncle of Barry Goldberg.


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