Adrian S. Fisher

Adrian S. Fisher (1914 - 1983) was an American lawyer and federal public servant, who had the distinction of clerking for two Supreme Court Justices, Louis Brandeis (1938-39) and Felix Frankfurter (1939).^[1] Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 472 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (531 × 675 pixel, file size: 60 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 472 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (531 × 675 pixel, file size: 60 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. ... Louis Dembitz Brandeis (November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was an American litigator, Supreme Court Justice, advocate of privacy, and developer of the Brandeis Brief. ... Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. ...

He was born on January 21, 1914 in Memphis, Tennessee, and attended elite schools such as Groton School, Princeton University (BA 1934) and Harvard Law School (LLM 1937).^[2] Adrian Fisher was admitted to the Tennessee Bar in 1938. From 1941 to 1942, Fisher, who was known by his nickname "Butch" from his early days as a football player for Princeton (lettered, 1933)^[3], was assistant chief of the Foreign Funds Control Division of the United States Department of State.^[4] January 21 is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Groton School is a private, Episcopal, college preparatory boarding school located in Groton, Massachusetts, USA. It enrolls approximately 350 boys and girls, from the eighth (IInd Form) through twelfth grades (VIth Form). ... Princeton University is a coeducational private university located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States of America. ... Harvard Law School (HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ...

He was a bomber navigator in the United States Army Air Forces from 1942 to 1943, with missions over France, Belgium and Germany, and returned to Washington, D.C. as an assistant to the Assistant Secretary of War in 1944. From 1945 - 1947, he served as advisor to Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, who was, in turn, serving as the U.S. Prosecutor to the Nuremberg Trial. Fisher assisted in the drafting of the London Charter of the International Military Tribunal, which created the legal basis for the Nuremberg trials. Fisher then served as Solicitor, U.S. Department of Commerce from 1947 to 1948. Thereafter, Fisher became general counsel of the Atomic Energy Commission from 1948-49. He then served as legal advisor (with the rank of Assistant Secretary of State) to the Department of State (serving in the office of Secretary of State Dean Acheson) from 1949 to 1953. ^[5] In the spring of 1951, Fisher shared the responsiblity for the coordination of the White House and State Department Congressional testimony regarding the firing of General Douglas MacArthur.^[6] During 1952, Mr. Fisher also served as legal advisor to the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations in Paris. ^[7] The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) was a part of the U.S. Army during World War II. The direct precursor to the U.S. Air Force, the USAAF formally existed between 1941 and 1947. ... Robert Houghwout Jackson (February 13, 1892–October 9, 1954) was United States Attorney General (1940–1941) and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1941–1954). ... The Nuremberg Trials is the general name for two sets of trials of Nazis involved in World War II and the Holocaust. ... The United States Department of Commerce is a Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with promoting economic growth. ... Shield of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. ... The United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States government, equivalent to foreign ministries in other countries. ... Dean Acheson Dean Gooderham Acheson (April 11, 1893 – October 12, 1971) was an American statesman and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State in the late 1940s he played the central role in defining American foreign policy for the Cold War. ... MacArthur landing at Leyte Beach in 1944. ... The foundation of the U.N. The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress and human rights issues. ... The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

From 1961 to 1968, Fisher served as the Deputy Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in which he took a primary negotiations role during the Atomic Test Ban Treaty of 1961 between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. At that time he was Deputy to John J. McCloy, Adviser to the President on Disarmament. In 1968, Fisher served as one of the chief U.S. negotiators of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which was signed by the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and 59 other countries on July 1, 1968.^[8] Scud Missile The U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) was established as an independent agency by the Arms Control and Disarmament Act (75 Stat. ... The Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space, and Under Water, often abbreviated as the Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT), Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT), or Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (NTBT), although the former also refers to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), is a treaty... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

In 1968, Mr. Fisher entered private practice with Covington & Burling and became General Counsel to the Washington Post. Mr. Fisher's connection with the Post had arisen because of his close friendship with the Post's then-owner Donald Graham since his early days in Washington, D.C., when, in the late 1940's, he had shared a rented house (belonging to then Secretary of State Dean Acheson) with Phillip Graham and Donald Hiss (brother of Alger Hiss). Covington & Burling is a major legal and lobbying firm focused on industry and regulatory and corporate, tax and benefits issues, and litigation. ... ... Dean Acheson Dean Gooderham Acheson (April 11, 1893 – October 12, 1971) was an American statesman and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State in the late 1940s he played the central role in defining American foreign policy for the Cold War. ... Philip Leslie Graham (July 18, 1915 – August 3, 1963) was publisher of The Washington Post from 1946 to 1963. ... Donald Hiss was the younger brother of Alger Hiss. ... Alger Hiss in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary (Photos courtesy of the Federal Bureau of Prisons) Alger Hiss (November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996) was a U.S. State Department official involved in the establishment of the United Nations. ...

From 1969 to 1975, Mr. Fisher served as Dean of Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., and in 1981 he joined the George Mason University School of Law's faculty, in Arlington, Virginia, teaching various seminars on negotiation tactics. The George Mason Law Review named its annual award for best student article in honor of Mr. Fisher. From 1981 to 1982, Mr. Fisher served as an advisor to John J. McCloy during the hearings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (established by Congress in 1980). This commission reviewed the impact of Executive Order 9066 on Japanese-Americans and determined that they were the victims of discrimination by the Federal government. The schools original sign, preserved on the north quad of the present-day campus. ... George Mason University School of Law is the law school of George Mason University, a state university in the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) was a group of people appointed by the U.S. Congress to conduct an official governmental study of Executive Order 9066, related wartime orders and their impact on Japanese Americans in the West and Alaska Natives in the Pribilof Islands. ... United States Executive Order 9066 was a presidential executive order issued during World War II by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, using his authority as Commander-in-Chief to exercise war powers to send ethnic groups to internment camps. ...

Adrian S. Fisher died in 1983, aged 69, in Washington, D.C. Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., in relation to the states Maryland and Virginia Coordinates: Country United States Federal District District of Columbia Government  - Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D)  - City Council Chairperson: Vincent C. Gray (D) Ward 1: Jim Graham (D...

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Links

• LBJ Library Oral History of Adrian S. Fisher
• Adrian S. Fisher and others with President Kennedy signing Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 07 October 1963 (JFK Library)
• Adrian S. Fisher nominated with rank of Ambassador while serving as the U.S. Representative to the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament (John Woolley and Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project)
• Group photograph of President Truman with undersecretaries and aides of various executive departments including Adrian S. Fisher, January 6, 1953 (Truman Museum and Presidential Library)