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Friendly, Henry Jacob

Born July 3, 1903, in Elmira, NY
Died March 11, 1986, in New York, NY

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Nominated by Dwight D. Eisenhower on March 10, 1959, to a seat vacated by Harold Raymond Medina. Confirmed by the Senate on September 9, 1959, and received commission on September 10, 1959. Served as chief judge, 1971-1973. Assumed senior status on April 15, 1974. Service terminated on March 11, 1986, due to death.

Other Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, Special Railroad Court, 1974-1986; presiding judge, 1974-1986

Education:
Harvard College, A.B., 1923
Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1927

Professional Career:

Law clerk, Hon. Louis D. Brandeis, Supreme Court of the United States, 1927-1928
Private practice, New York City, 1928-1959
Vice president/general counsel, Pan American World Airways, New York City, 1946-1959
Member, Judicial Conference of the United States, 1971-1973

Bibliography

Boudin, Michael. "Judge Henry Friendly and the Craft of Judging." University of Pennsylvania Law Review 159, no. 1 (Dec. 2010): 1-15.

________. “Judge Henry Friendly and the Mirror of Constitutional Law.” New York University Law Review, vol. 82, no. 4 (Oct. 2007): 975-96.

Breen, Daniel Lewis. “Avoiding ‘Wild Blue Yonders’: The Prudentialism of Henry J. Friendly and John Roberts.” South Dakota Law Review, vol. 52, no. 1 (2007): 73-135.

________. "Henry J. Friendly and the Pragmatic Tradition in American Law." PhD diss., Boston College, 2002.

Domnarski, William. “The Correspondence of Henry Friendly and Richard A. Posner, 1982-86.” American Journal of Legal History, vol. 51, no. 3 (2011): 395-416.

Dorsen, David M. “Eating your Cake and Having it, too; Judge Henry Friendly and Tax Law.” Virginia Tax Review, vol. 32, no. 4 (Spring 2013): 767-812.

________. Henry Friendly: Greatest Judge of His Era. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.

________. “Judges Henry Friendly and Benjamin Cardozo: A Tale of Two Precedents.” Pace Law Review, vol. 31, no. 2 (Spring 2011): 599-626.

Lucas, Tory L. "Henry J. Friendly: Designed to be a Great Federal Judge." Drake Law Review 65, no. 422 (2017): 421-480.

Randolph, A. Raymond. “Administrative Law and the Legacy of Henry Friendly.” New York University Law Review, vol. 74, no. 1 (Apr. 1999): 1-17.

Ursin, Edmund. “How Great Judges Think: Judges Richard Posner, Henry Friendly, and Roger Trainor on Judicial Lawmaking.” Buffalo Law Review, vol. 57, no. 4 (Jul. 2009): 1267-360.

Manuscript Collections

Harvard University Law School
Cambridge, Mass.
Henry J. Friendly papers, 1922-1989.
140 linear ft.; finding aid; restricted; collection contains correspondence, judicial case files, and other personal papers.

Oral History

Friendly, Henry J. "The Reminiscences of Judge Henry J. Friendly." Interview conducted in 1960. Aviation Project, Oral History Research Office, Butler Library, Columbia University, New York, 1967. Transcript, 25 pages.

Friendly, Henry J. Interview regarding charitable work in New York City. Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Oral History Project, 1981-1987, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., and Jacob Rader Marcus Center, American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Portraits

Henry J. Friendly; creator unknown; Photograph; n.d.; Published in Michael Norman, ''Henry J. Friendly, Federal Judge In Court of Appeals, Is Dead at 82.'' New York Times, Mar. 12, 1986, B6.

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