Thurman Arnold
| Thurman Arnold | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit | |
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In office March 18, 1943 – July 9, 1945 |
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| Nominated by | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Preceded by | Wiley B. Rutledge |
| Succeeded by | Bennett Champ Clark |
| United States Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division | |
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In office 1938–1943 |
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| President | Franklin Roosevelt |
| Preceded by | Robert H. Jackson |
| Succeeded by | Wendell Berge |
| Personal details | |
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Thurman Wesley Arnold June 2, 1891 Laramie, Wyoming |
| Died | November 7, 1969 (aged 78) Alexandria, Virginia |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater |
Princeton University Harvard Law School |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Thurman Wesley Arnold (June 2, 1891 – November 7, 1969) was an iconoclastic Washington, D.C. lawyer. He was best known for his trust-busting campaign as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division in Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Department of Justice from 1938 to 1943. Before coming to Washington in 1938, Arnold was the mayor of Laramie, Wyoming, and then a professor at Yale Law School, where he took part in the legal realism movement, and published two books: The Symbols of Government (1935) and The Folklore of Capitalism (1937). A few years later, he published The Bottlenecks of Business (1940).
Thurman was born in the frontier ranch town of Laramie, Wyoming, which grew to be a small city and location of the University of Wyoming. He was the son of Annie (Brockway) and Constantine Peter Arnold. He began his university studies at Wabash College, but transferred to Princeton, earning his B.A. in 1911. He earned his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1914. He served in World War I, rising to the rank of lieutenant in the U.S. Army (Field Artillery) and worked briefly in Chicago before returning to Laramie, where he was a member of the Wyoming House of Representatives in 1921 and then mayor from 1923-1924. He developed a reputation as a maverick lawyer.
He was a Lecturer at the University of Wyoming from 1921 to 1926. He was dean of the College of Law at West Virginia University from 1927 to 1930. He was a visiting professor at Yale from 1930 to 1931; he was then a full professor of law there from 1931 to 1938. He was a special assistant to general counsel of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in 1933. He was an assistant U.S. Attorney general of U.S. Department of Justice from 1938 to 1943.
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