Felix Frankfurter
| Felix Frankfurter | |
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| Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | |
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In office January 20, 1939 – August 28, 1962 |
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| Nominated by | Franklin Roosevelt |
| Preceded by | Benjamin Cardozo |
| Succeeded by | Arthur Goldberg |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
November 15, 1882 Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria) |
| Died | February 22, 1965 (aged 82) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Political party | Independent |
| Spouse(s) | Marion Denman (m. 1919) |
| Alma mater |
City University of New York, City College Harvard University |
| Religion | Judaism |
Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was a jurist, who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Frankfurter was born in Vienna and immigrated to New York at the age of 12. He graduated from Harvard Law School and was active politically, helping to found the American Civil Liberties Union. He was a friend and adviser of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1939. Frankfurter served on the Supreme Court for 23 years, and was a noted advocate of judicial restraint in the judgments of the Court.
Frankfurter was born into a Jewish family on November 15, 1882, in Vienna, Austria, then part of the Austria-Hungary. He was the third of six children of Leopold Frankfurter, a merchant, and Emma (Winter) Frankfurter. His uncle, Solomon Frankfurter, was head librarian at the Vienna University Library. Frankfurter's forebears had been rabbis for generations. In 1894, when he was twelve, his family immigrated to New York City, settling on the Lower East Side, a dense center of immigrants. Frankfurter attended P.S. 25, where he excelled at his studies and enjoyed playing chess and shooting craps on the street. He spent many hours reading at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and attending political lectures, usually on subjects such as trade unionism, socialism and communism.
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