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Swan, Thomas Walter

Born December 20, 1877, in Norwich, CT
Died July 13, 1975

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Nominated by Calvin Coolidge on December 15, 1926, to a seat vacated by Henry Wade Rogers. Confirmed by the Senate on December 22, 1926, and received commission on December 22, 1926. Served as chief judge, 1951-1953. Assumed senior status on July 1, 1953. Service terminated on July 13, 1975, due to death.

Education:
Yale University, A.B., 1900
Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1903

Professional Career:

Private practice, Chicago, Illinois, 1903-1916
Lecturer in law, University of Chicago, 1903-1904, 1908
Dean and professor of law, Yale Law School, 1916-1927
Member, Judicial Conference of the United States, 1951-1953

Manuscript Collections

Harvard Law School
Cambridge, Mass.
Correspondence of Thomas Swan, 1953.

Michael Smith and Herbert Packer Research Materials on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1910-1972.
Compiled for a book Smith and Packer planned on writing about the court. The collection is focused on Judges Learned Hand, Augustus Hand, Jerome Frank, Charles Clark, Thomas Swan, and Julian Mack. The materials include court opinions, interviews, research materials, collected writings and speeches, and some of Augustus Hand's correspondence.

Yale University
Sterling Memorial Library
New Haven, Conn.
Thomas Walter Swan papers, 1918-1976.
2 linear ft.; finding aid; contains correspondence, speeches, photographs, awards, clippings, and miscellanea documenting Swan's career.

Portraits

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit judges [Thomas Walter Swan, center]; by Erich Hartmann; Group photograph; 1953; Learned Hand Visuals Collection, Harvard Law School Library, Cambridge, Mass., record identifier: olvwork371818. Reference image courtesy of Historical & Special Collections, Harvard Law School Library. Further reproduction prohibited without permission of the library.

Additional images:

Thomas W. Swan B.A., Sterling Prof. of Law; by William Sergeant Kendall; Pastel on buff cardboard; n.d.; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., ref. #: 1945.137.

Thomas Walter Swan; artist unknown; Photograph of oil portrait; n.d.; U.S. Courts Library for the Second Circuit, Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse, New York, N.Y.

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