CHIEF JUSTICE HARLAN F. STONE - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 11/18/1939 - HFSID 277591
Price: $400.00
HARLAN FISKE STONE
Supreme Court Justice Stone responds to a request for a meeting
Typed Letter signed: "Harlan F Stone" as Associate Justice, 1
page, 8x10½. Washington, D.C., 1939 November 18.
On official letterhead to Eames MacVeagh, Washington, D.C. In full:
"In reply to your letter of the 13th, I am obliged to leave town to
attend Mr. Justice Butler's funeral in St. Paul. After I return here the middle
of next week I shall be glad to have you come in at some mutually convenient
hour, to read me what you have written. I suggest that when you are ready to
come you call up (Decatur 0210) and arrange to come in, probably around five
o'clock in the afternoon when I return from Court. Yours sincerely". Harlan
Fiske Stone (1872-1946) decreased corruption in the Justice Department while
serving as U.S. Attorney General (1924-1925). Appointed as an
Associate Justice by President Calvin Coolidge, Stone served for 16 years
(1925-1941) before being appointed as the 12th Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court (1941-1946) by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. A progressive
Republican, Stone had voted to uphold most but not all of FDR's New Deal
legislation. Stone's greatest contribution to the Court was his belief in
judicial self-restraint; he felt that judicial review should not be affected by
the justices' personal views. Light mailing folds. Fine condition.
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