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Arnold, Thurman Wesley

Born June 2, 1891, in Laramie, WY
Died November 1969

Federal Judicial Service:
Associate Justice, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (now U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit)
Nominated by Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 11, 1943, to a seat vacated by Wiley B. Rutledge, Jr. Confirmed by the Senate on March 9, 1943, and received commission on March 11, 1943. Service terminated on July 9, 1945, due to resignation.

Education:
Princeton University, B.A., 1911
Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1914

Professional Career:

U.S. Army lieutenant, field artillery, -1919
Private practice, Chicago, Illinois, 1914-1919
Private practice, Laramie, Wyoming, 1919-1927
State representative, Wyoming, 1921
Mayor, Laramie, Wyoming, 1923-1924
Lecturer, University of Wyoming, 1921-1926
Dean, West Virginia University College of Law, 1927-1930
Faculty, Yale University, 1930-1938; visiting professor, 1930-1931; professor of law, 1931-1938
Special assistant to general counsel, Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 1933
Assistant attorney general, U.S. Department of Justice, 1938-1943
Private practice, Washington, D.C., 1945-

Bibliography

Arnold, Thurman Wesley. Fair Fights and Foul: A Dissenting Lawyer's Life. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965.

Arnold, Thurman Wesley. Voltaire and the Cowboy: The Letters of Thurman Arnold. Edited by Gene M. Gressley. Boulder: Colorado Associated University Press, 1977.

Brinkley, Alan. "The Antimonopoly Ideal and the Liberal State: The Case of Thurman Arnold." Journal of American History 80 (September 1993): 557-79.

Duffy, James L. "Thurman Arnold and the Sherman Act, 1938-1943." Ph.D. diss., Clark University, 1950.

Fortas, Abe. “Thurmond Arnold and the Theatre of the Law.” Yale Law Journal, vol. 79, no. 6 (May 1970): 988-1004.

Kearny, Edward N. Thurman Arnold, Social Critic: The Satirical Challenge to Orthodoxy. Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, 1970.

Miscamble, Wilson D. "Thurman Arnold Goes to Washington: A Look at Anti-Trust Policy in the Later New Deal." Business History Review 56 (1982): 1-15.

Samuels, Warren J. "Legal Realism and the Burden of Symbolism: The Correspondence of Thurman Arnold." Law and Society Review 13 (1979): 997-1011.

Titus, James Emerson. "Studies in American Liberalism of the 1930's: John Dewey, Benjamin Cardozo and Thurman Arnold." Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1957.

Waller, Spencer Weber. Thurman Arnold: A Biography. New York: New York University Press, 2005.

Manuscript Collections

University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
Laramie, Wyo.
Thurman Wesley Arnold papers, 1938-1942.
779 items, 23 vols., and 7 folders; collection contains correspondence, memoranda, addresses, and other papers relating to Arnold's service as assistant U.S. attorney general.

Oral History

Arnold, Thurman Wesley. "The Reminiscences of Judge Thurman W. Arnold." Interview conducted in 1967 by Sally Fly Connell. James Lawrence Fly Project, Columbia Center for Oral History, Butler Library, Columbia University, New York, 1967. Transcript, 16 pages. Permission required.

Arnold, Thurman Wesley. "The Reminiscences of Judge Thurman W. Arnold." Interview conducted in 1961 by Paul D. Greenberg. Columbia Center for Oral History, Butler Library, Columbia University, New York, 1980. Transcript, 46 pages. Permission required.

Arnold, Thurman Wesley. "The Reminiscences of Judge Thurman W. Arnold." Interview conducted in 1959 by Robert McCormick. Columbia Center for Oral History, Butler Library, Columbia University, New York, 1959. Transcript, 18 pages. Permission required.

Arnold, Thurman Wesley. Interview conducted on December 15, 1964, by Sidney Fine and Marvin Petroelje. Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1964. Transcript, 11 pages.

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