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LOUIS D. BRANDEIS
was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on November 13, 1856.
He attended preparatory school in Dresden, Germany, and
was admitted to Harvard Law School in 1874. Following
graduation in 1877, Brandeis moved to St. Louis, Missouri,
where he practiced law. He returned to Cambridge, Massachusetts,
and opened a law office with a law school classmate. During
his career in private practice, Brandeis secured enactment
of a state law providing low-cost insurance through savings
banks, defended municipal control of Boston’s subway
system, and arbitrated labor disputes in the garment district
of New York, New York. Brandeis was active in support
of his alma mater and to civic affairs and was one of
the founders of the Harvard Law Review. President
Woodrow Wilson nominated Brandeis to the Supreme Court
of the United States on January 28, 1916, and the Senate
confirmed the appointment on June 1, 1916. He retired
from the Supreme Court on February 13, 1939, after twenty-two
years of service. He died on October 5, 1941, at the age
of eighty-four. |
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