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Magruder, Calvert

Born December 26, 1893, in Annapolis, MD
Died May 22, 1968

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Nominated by Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 24, 1939, to a seat vacated by George Hutchins Bingham. Confirmed by the Senate on June 1, 1939, and received commission on June 3, 1939. Served as chief judge, 1948-1959. Assumed senior status on June 12, 1959. Service terminated on May 22, 1968, due to death.

Other Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, Emergency Court of Appeals, 1942-1962

Education:
St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, A.B., 1913
Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1916
St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, A.M., 1917

Professional Career:

Law clerk, Hon. Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court of the United States, 1916-1917
U.S. Army lieutenant, Infantry, 1917-1919
Attorney, U.S. Shipping Board, 1919-1920
Faculty, Harvard Law School, 1920-1939, 1947-1959; assistant professor of law, 1920-1925; professor of law, 1925-1939; vice dean, 1930-1939; lecturer, 1947-1959
General counsel, National Labor Relations Board, 1934-1935
General counsel, Wage and Hour Division, U.S. Department of Labor, 1938-1939
Member, Conference of Senior Circuit Judges, 1940-1948, and Judicial Conference of the United States, 1948-1959
Lecturer, University of California, Hastings College of the Law, 1959-1960
Lecturer, Columbia University, 1960-1961
Lecturer, Ohio State University, 1961
Lecturer, University of Puerto Rico, 1962

Bibliography

Dargo, George. "Calvert Magruder of the First Circuit: The Law Professor as Judge." Massachusetts Law Review 74 (December 1989): 239-46.

Manuscript Collections

Harvard University Law School
Cambridge, Mass.
Calvert Magruder papers, 1920-1965.
17 linear ft. (ca. 12,000 items); finding aid; correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, drafts of opinions, speeches, legal documents, bibliographies, research notes, clippings, and other printed matter relating to Magruder's teaching, judicial, and public service careers.

Radcliffe College
Schlesinger Library on the History of Women
Cambridge, Mass.
Calvert Magruder papers, 1913.
1 folder; finding aid; collection contains the constitution of The Most Noble and Lofty Society of W.H. (Women Haters) as copied by its president, Calvert Magruder.

Portraits

United States Circuit Court of Appeals (1st circuit) Judges, 1950. John Mahoney, Chief Justice Calvert Magruder [center], Peter Woodbury; artist unknown; Photograph; 1950; Legal Portrait Collection, Harvard Law School Library, Cambridge, Mass., record identifier: olvwork203511. Reference image courtesy of Historical & Special Collections, Harvard Law School Library. Further reproduction prohibited without permission of the library.

Additional images:

Calvert Magruder; by Louis Fabian Bachrach; Photograph; n.d.; Legal Portrait Collection, Harvard Law School Library, Cambridge, Mass., record identifier: olvwork203510.

Calvert Magruder; by unknown; Photograph; ca. 1924-1926; Faculty Portrait Collection, Harvard Law School Library, Cambridge, Mass.

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