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Harlan F. Stone

1872 - 1946

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Harlan Fiske Stone (October 11, 1872 – April 22, 1946) was an American attorney who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1925 to 1941 and then as the 12th chief justice of the United States from 1941 until his death in 1946. He also served as the U.S. Attorney General from 1924 to 1925 under President Calvin Coolidge, with whom he had attended Amherst College as a young man. His most famous dictum was that "Courts are not the only agency of government that must be assumed to have capacity to govern." Raised in Western Massachusetts, Stone practiced law in New York City after graduating from Columbia Law School. He became the Dean of Columbia Law School and a partner with Sullivan & Cromwell. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harlan F. Stone has received more than 729,146 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Harlan F. Stone is the 33rd most popular judge (down from 30th in 2019), the 10,352nd most popular biography from United States (down from 9,274th in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Judge.

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Among JUDGES

Among judges, Harlan F. Stone ranks 33 out of 53. Before him are John Paul Stevens, Vassilios Skouris, Carlo Biotti, Richard Goldstone, Walter Q. Gresham, and Peter Tomka. After him are Brett Kavanaugh, David Souter, Leila Seth, Elliott Belgrave, Elena Kagan, and Samuel Chase.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Harlan F. Stone ranks 190. Before him are Siegfried Flesch, Harald Natvig, Ľudmila Podjavorinská, Mary Engle Pennington, Joseph Rosemeyer, and Eugenie Schwarzwald. After him are Otto Bahr Halvorsen, Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, Henry Seiling, William Nicholson, Ivar Lykke, and Michael Joseph Savage. Among people deceased in 1946, Harlan F. Stone ranks 217. Before him are Paul Nash, João Sassetti, Booth Tarkington, Lucina Hagman, Jeanie MacPherson, and George Cloutier. After him are Lionel Atwill, Florence Turner, Helen Bannerman, Florence Fuller, Edgar Syers, and Miles Mander.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harlan F. Stone ranks 10,352 out of 20,380. Before him are Don Gordon (1926), Keen Johnson (1896), Ira Remsen (1846), George Nichols (1864), Dean Smith (1931), and Stanley Anderson (1939). After him are James Morrison (1954), Edward Sedgwick (1889), Miller Anderson (1922), John Dean (1938), Janet L. Kavandi (1959), and Scott Rudin (1958).

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Among JUDGES In United States

Among judges born in United States, Harlan F. Stone ranks 16. Before him are Sonia Sotomayor (1954), Samuel Alito (1950), Anthony Kennedy (1936), Warren E. Burger (1907), John Paul Stevens (1920), and Walter Q. Gresham (1832). After him are Brett Kavanaugh (1965), David Souter (1939), Elena Kagan (1960), Samuel Chase (1741), Ketanji Brown Jackson (1970), and Harry Blackmun (1908).

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