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FELIX FRANKFURTER
was born in Vienna, Austria, on November 15, 1882. When
he was twelve years old, his family emigrated to the United
States and settled in New York, New York. Frankfurter
was graduated from the College of the City of New York
in 1902 and Harvard Law School in 1906. Upon graduation,
he took a position with a New York law firm, but within
the year he was appointed an Assistant United States Attorney
for the Southern District of New York. In 1910, Frankfurter
began four years of service in the War Department’s
Bureau of Insular Affairs as a legal officer. In 1914,
he accepted an appointment to the faculty of Harvard Law
School. He returned to Washington in 1917 to become assistant
to the Secretary of War. He later became Secretary and
counsel to the President’s Mediation Commission and,
subsequently, Chairman of the War Labor Policies Board.
After World War I he rejoined the Harvard Law School faculty.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated Frankfurter
to the Supreme Court of the United States on January 5,
1939, and the Senate confirmed the appointment on January
17, 1939. After twenty-three years of service, Frankfurter
retired from the Supreme Court on August 28, 1962. He
died on February 22, 1965, at the age of eighty-two.
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