The 1950s: Law and Justice: Deaths

THE 1950s: LAW AND JUSTICE: DEATHS

Alberto Anastasia, 55, "Lord High Executioner" of organized crime's Murder, Inc., 25 October 1957.

Wendell Berge, 52, head of the Department of Justice's Anti-Trust Division (1943-1947), 24 September 1955.

Emanuel H. Bloch, 52, attorney who defended Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, 30 January 1954.

Charles Culp Burlingham, 100, attorney and advocate of civil reform in New York City, 6 June 1959.

Francis Gordon Caffey, 82, federal judge who presided at the twenty-seven-month trial of the antitrust case against the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA), 20 September 1951.

William L. Clark, 66, chief justice of the U.S. Court of Appeals in West Germany (1948-1953), 9 October 1957.

Bartley C. Cram, 59, noted divorce attorney, obtained a million-dollar settlement for actress Rita Hayworth from Prince Aly Khan, 9 December 1959.

Homer Cummings, 86, U.S. attorney general (1933-1939), proposed to President Franklin Roosevelt the idea of "packing" the Supreme Court with justices sympathetic to Roosevelt's policies, 10 September 1956.

William J. Foley, 65, district attorney of Boston (1926-1952), 1 December 1952.

William L. Frierson, 83, U.S. solicitor general (1920-1921), 25 May 1953.

Henry William Goddard, 79, judge of the Federal District Court, Southern District of New York (1923-1954), 26 August 1955.

T. Alan Goldsborough, 73, federal district judge (1939-1951), 16 June 1951.

Rudolph Halley, 43, counsel for the Senate Crime Investigating Committee (1950), 19 November 1956.

Augustus Noble Hand, 85, judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Second District (1927-1953), 28 October 1954.

Arthur Garfield Hays, 73, attorney and civil rights activist who served as counsel without fee to Thomas Scopes, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, and the Scottsboro defendants, 14 December 1954.

Dr. Edward Oscar Heinrich, 72, American criminologist and innovator in methods of crime detection, 29 September 1953.

Ligon Johnson, 78, noted copyright lawyer and counsel to much of the film industry, 29 March 1951.

Frederick Katzmann, 78, district attorney who prosecuted the case against Sacco and Vanzetti, 15 October 1953.

Joseph B. Keenan, 66, attorney who served as prosecutor in the 1945 Japanese war-crimes trials, 8 December 1954.

Edward J. McGoldrick, 80, New York Supreme Court justice (1929-1951), 8 January 1951.

Terence J. McManus, 79, noted New York lawyer, 19 May 1950.

Joseph Morelli, 70, allegedly the actual perpetrator of the crimes for which Sacco and Vanzetti were executed, 26 August 1950.

Seth Whitley Richardson, 73, chief counsel for the 1946 congressional investigation of Pearl Harbor and former chairman of the Subversive Activities Control Board, 17 March 1953.

Owen Josephus Roberts, 80, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1930-1945), 17 May 1955.

Charles J. Scully, 68, FBI agent who exposed stock swindling in the 1920s, 4 August 1952.

Charles B. Sears, 80, a presiding justice at the Nuremberg war-crimes trials, 17 December 1950.

Charles Warren, 86, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Supreme Court in United States History (1923), 16 August 1954.

Jesse E. Wilkins, 54, attorney, the first African-American to hold a subcabinet post (assistant secretary of labor, 1954-1958), 19 January 1959.