Thomas Day Thacher
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| Born |
Thomas Day Thacher September 10, 1881 Tenafly, New Jersey |
| Died | November 12, 1950 (aged 69) New York City |
| Resting place | Brookside Cemetery |
| Title | President of the New York City Bar Association |
| Term | 1933–1935 |
| Parent(s) |
Thomas Thacher Sarah McCulloh Green |
| Relatives | Thomas Anthony Thacher, grandfather |
Thomas Day Thacher (September 10, 1881 – November 12, 1950) was a lawyer and judge in New York City.
Thacher was born in Tenafly, New Jersey, oldest of the four children of Thomas Thacher, a prominent New York lawyer, and Sarah McCulloh (Green) Thacher. He attended Taft School and Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, for his preparatory education, before following a family tradition and going to Yale University, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. At Yale he won the university's John Addison Porter Prize and graduated in 1904. Thacher attended Yale Law School for two years, leaving before obtaining his degree. In 1906, he was admitted to the New York bar and joined the practice of his father at the firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.
Thomas Day Thacher was the grandson of Yale administrator and professor Thomas Anthony Thacher, and the great-great-grandson of American founding father Roger Sherman.
Thacher's career in public service began when he was appointed Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York in 1907, at the age of 26. While in this position, Thacher was recognized for his work in prosecuting customs fraud. In 1910, Thacher returned to Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, where he became a partner in 1914. Thacher remained in practice there until 1925, except during the World War I, when he worked with the American Red Cross, providing funding for the Bolshevik Revolution, in Russia from 1917–1918.
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