Bailey Aldrich
| Bailey Aldrich | |
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| Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit | |
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In office August 31, 1972 – September 25, 2002 |
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| Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit | |
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In office 1965–1972 |
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| Preceded by | Peter Woodbury |
| Succeeded by | Frank M. Coffin |
| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit | |
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In office September 10, 1959 – August 31, 1972 |
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| Appointed by | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Preceded by | Calvert Magruder |
| Succeeded by | Levin H. Campbell |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts | |
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In office April 27, 1954 – September 14, 1959 |
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| Appointed by | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Preceded by | New seat |
| Succeeded by | Anthony Julian |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
April 23, 1907 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Died | September 25, 2002 (aged 95) Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University A.B. Harvard Law School LL.B. |
| Profession | Attorney |
Bailey Aldrich (April 23, 1907 – September 25, 2002) was a United States federal judge for more than 48 years.
A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Aldrich graduated from Harvard College with an Artium Baccalaureus in 1928 and Harvard Law School with a Bachelor of Laws in 1932. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1954. After 22 years in private practice in Boston, President Dwight D. Eisenhower nominated Aldrich to serve as a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
According to Ted Morgan in Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America, Judge Aldrich drew the ire of Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1955, when Aldrich dismissed contempt of Congress charges against Leon J. Kamin. In February 1956, McCarthy wrote to complain to President Eisenhower, accusing Judge Aldrich of harboring sympathy toward Communists. He had learned from the New Bedford Standard-Times that Aldrich had initially refused, on principle, to sign a non-Communist affidavit card upon his appointment as a trustee to the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital. Massachusetts Governor Christian Herter had nominated him for the trusteeship on August 2, 1955, two months before the Kamin trial. According to Morgan, the judge wrote that he "would rather forgo the post on the hospital board than sign the card." He finally did sign the card on September 13, "after being told that failure to comply would cause great embarrassment to the Herter administration," but McCarthy was not satisfied by the news that Aldrich had eventually complied. President Eisenhower ignored McCarthy's complaint.
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