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Felix Frankfurter was a justice of the United States Supreme Court. He migrated with his family to the United States from Austria in 1894. Frankfurter graduated from Harvard Law School in 1906 and was a professor there from 1913 to 1939. He held a number of public positions during World War 1, including assistant to the secretary of war, assistant to the secretary of labor and chair of the War Labor Policies Board. Franklin D Roosevelt appointed Frankfurter to the United States Supreme Court in 1939, where he served until 1962.
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Hockett, Jeffrey D. ‘Frankfurter, Felix.’ In The Oxford Companion to United States History, edited by Paul S. Boyer, et al., 290. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
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