Stephen J. Spingarn

Stephen J. Spingarn (1908–1984) was a mid-20th-century American lawyer and civil servant in the FDR, Truman, and (briefly) Eisenhower administrations, who last served as Special Counsel (1949) and Administrative Assistant to President Truman (1950) and lastly commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission (1950–1953) during transition to President Eisenhower.

Writings on the mid-20th-Century often cite his official writings during office; less often, they describe him in text.

Stephen Joel Spingarn was born on September 1, 1908, in Bedford, New York. His father, Joel Elias Spingarn, was a professor of comparative literature at Columbia University, co-founder of Harcourt, Brace & Co., Republican Party supporter who ran for Congress in New York with an endorsement from President Theodore Roosevelt, and later chairman of the board of the NAACP. Lewis Mumford was a close family friend: he bought their family home in Leedsville, New York. His uncle was Arthur B. Spingarn, an early NAACP supporter.

He attended Phillips Exeter Academy. He started studies at Yale University but, after working summers as a U.S. National Park ranger in the Mesa Verde National Park, decided to stay West and settled on the University of Arizona in Tucson, where he graduated in the mid-1930s and passed the Arizona State Bar.

Spingarn served three presidential administrations from 1934 to 1953.

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