The 1940s: Law and Justice: Deaths

THE 1940s: LAW AND JUSTICE: DEATHS

Louis Brandeis, 84, retired associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 5 October 1941.

Col. G. W. Burleigh, 69, soldier, church leader, and lawyer, 15 March 1940.

Al(phonse) Capone, 48, Italian American former gangster, 25 January 1947.

John H. Clarke, 87, former associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who resigned in 1922 to promote American participation in the League of Nations, 22 March 1945.

P. D. Cravath, 78, president of the Metropolitan Opera Association and lawyer, 1 July 1940.

Mrs. M. P. Falconer, 79, prison reformer, 26 November 1941.

I. F. Fischer, 81, U.S. customs judge in New York City, 16 March 1940.

J. S. Fisher, 73, former governor of Pennsylvania and lawyer, 25 June 1940.

E. W. Graser, 32, lawyer and radio actor who portrayed the Lone Ranger, 8 April 1941.

Grafton Green, 74, chief justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court and judge at the Scopes "Monkey" trial (creationism versus evolution), 27 January 1947.

Arthur D. Hill, 78, one of the attorneys in the Sacco and Vanzetti case, 29 November 1947.

Henry Horner, 61, governor of Illinois, lawyer and former judge, 6 October 1940.

A. J. Houston, 87, U.S. senator from Texas, lawyer, and last surviving son of Texas patriot Sam Houston, 26 June 1941.

Charles Evans Hughes, 86, retired chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, former governor of New York, U.S. secretary of state, and Republican nominee for president in 1916, 27 August 1948.

George Washington Kirchwey, 87, criminologist, warden of Sing Sing Prison, lawyer, and dean of Columbia University Law School, 3 March 1942.

James McReynolds, 84, retired associate justice of the Supreme Court, 24 August 1946.

John Bassett Moore, 86, former member of the Permanent Court of International Justice and noted authority on international law, 12 November 1947.

Frank W. Murphy, 59, former mayor of Detroit, governor general of the Philippines, governor of Michigan, U.S. attorney general, and associate justice of the Supreme Court, 19 July 1949.

Bradley Palmer, 80, retired Boston lawyer and former member of the U.S. peace delegation in 1919, 9 November 1946.

S. H. Piles, 81, diplomat, lawyer, and former U.S. senator from Washington, 11 March 1940.

Heartsill Ragon, 55, U.S. judge and former congressman, 15 September 1940.

Prof. J. S. Reeves, 70, authority on international law, 7 July 1942.

Edward J. Reilly, 64, criminal lawyer and defense counsel in the Lindbergh kidnapping case, 25 December 1946.

Henry Ridgely, 71, blind lawyer and banker, 13 July 1940.

T. L. Robinson, 60, New York attorney and member of the Dawes German Reparations board, 20 February 1940.

Wiley Rutledge, 55, former professor of law and dean at several law schools, associate justice of the Supreme Court, 10 September 1949.

F. M. Sackett, 72, former ambassador to Germany, former U.S. senator from Kentucky and lawyer, 18 May 1941.

Arthur H. Sapp, 63, lawyer and former president of Rotary International, 9 June 1946.

Harlan Fiske Stone, 73, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, former dean of Columbia Law School, and U.S. attorney general, 22 April 1946.

S. M. Stroock, 67, president of the American Jewish Committee and lawyer, 11 September 1941.

George Sutherland, 80, retired associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and former U.S. senator from Utah, 18 July 1942.

Willis Van Devanter, 81, retired associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 8 February 1941.

Wendell L. Willkie, 52, lawyer and Republican presidential candidate in 1940, 8 October 1944.

Maj. Gen. Blanton Winship, 77, former governor of Puerto Rico and former judge advocate general, 9 October 1947.