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Felix Frankfurter

1882 - 1965

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Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was an Austrian-born American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1939 until 1962, during which he was an advocate of judicial restraint. Frankfurter was born in Vienna, immigrating to New York City at the age of 12. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Frankfurter worked for Henry L. Stimson, the U.S. Secretary of War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Felix Frankfurter has received more than 1,267,082 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 18 in 2019). Felix Frankfurter is the 92nd most popular lawyer (down from 70th in 2019), the 1,011th most popular biography from Austria (down from 908th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Austrian Lawyer.

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Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, Felix Frankfurter ranks 92 out of 136. Before him are Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Christopher A. Wray, Clara González, Aisha Rateb, Karim Ahmad Khan, and Alberto Nisman. After him are John Dean, Richard Wagner, Roscoe Pound, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Irene Khan, and Hauwa Ibrahim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Felix Frankfurter ranks 261. Before him are Jaroslav Tuček, George van Rossem, Mina Loy, Paul Koebe, Paul Günther, and Alvin Langdon Coburn. After him are Edward Van Sloan, Ricardo J. Alfaro, Mary Boland, Sybil Thorndike, N. C. Wyeth, and Milton Sills. Among people deceased in 1965, Felix Frankfurter ranks 209. Before him are Robert Benson, Marion Jones Farquhar, Søren Marinus Jensen, Tadd Dameron, Vasily Struve, and Edward Archibald. After him are Aimée Antoinette Camus, Herb Drury, Gheorghe Ciolac, Robert Sjursen, Herbert Morrison, and Halvdan Koht.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Felix Frankfurter ranks 1,011 out of 1,424. Before him are Otto Stuppacher (1947), Mario Haas (1974), Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten (1861), Peter Zoller (1952), Siegfried Purner (1915), and Eleonore Schwarz (1936). After him are Hans Haas (1906), Ľudmila Podjavorinská (1872), Ernst Vettori (1964), Olga Pall (1947), Erhard Busek (1941), and Marianne Mendt (1945).

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Among LAWYERS In Austria

Among lawyers born in Austria, Felix Frankfurter ranks 4. Before him are Hans Gross (1847), Franz von Liszt (1851), and Hans von Dohnanyi (1902).

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