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ARTHUR J. GOLDBERG
was born in Chicago, Illinois, on August 8, 1908. He was
graduated from Northwestern University in 1929 and received
his law degree in 1930. Goldberg was admitted to the bar
and joined a law firm in which he specialized in labor
law. He first gained national recognition by representing
the Chicago Newspaper Guild in a 1938 strike. Goldberg
served as Chief of the Labor Division of the Office of
Strategic Services in Europe during World War II. After
the war, Goldberg returned to his practice and became
counsel to both the Congress of Industrial Organizations
and the United Steelworkers of America. He played a major
role in the merger of the two largest national labor organizations
in 1955. President John F. Kennedy appointed Goldberg
Secretary of Labor in 1961. The following year, on August
29, 1962, President Kennedy nominated Goldberg to the
Supreme Court of the United States, and the Senate confirmed
the appointment on September 25, 1962. Goldberg had been
on the Supreme Court for three years when, in 1965, President
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him United States Ambassador
to the United Nations. Goldberg resigned from the Supreme
Court on July 25, 1965. Goldberg retired from his ambassadorship
in 1968 and returned to private practice. He died on January
19, 1990, at the age of eighty-one. |
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