Felix Frankfurter
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Felix Frankfurter was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1939 until 1962, advocating judicial restraint.
Official portrait, 1939
Portrait by Harris & Ewing c. 1918
Frankfurter earlier in his career
Frankfurter's wife Marion
Benjamin N. Cardozo
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Benjamin Nathan Cardozo was an American lawyer and jurist who served on the New York Court of Appeals from 1914 to 1932 and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1932
Felix Frankfurter
…returned to Harvard and helped found the American Civil Liberties Union. He later became a friend and adviser of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. After Benjamin N. Cardozo died in 1938, Roosevelt nominated Frankfurter to the Supreme Court. Given his affiliations and alleged radicalism, the Senate confirmed Frankfurter's…
Cardozo c. 1932
Justice Cardozo in his judicial robes
Cardozo's Supreme Court nomination
Cardozo on his 67th birthday (1937)