Justice McReynolds, c. 1917 James Clark McReynolds (February 3, 1862–August 24, 1946) was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from October 12, 1914 to January 31, 1941. 1917 photograph of James Clark McReynolds This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ...
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Born at Elkton, Kentucky, he was graduated as valedictorian from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee in 1882 and attended the University of Virginia law school. He was secretary to Senator Howell Edmunds Jackson, who later became an associate justice himself. McReynolds practiced law in Nashville. He ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1886. Under Theodore Roosevelt he was Assistant Attorney General from 1903 to 1907, when he resigned to take up private practice in New York, New York. Elkton is a city located in Todd County, Kentucky. ...
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In 1913, liberal Democrat President Woodrow Wilson named him United States Attorney General and the next year appointed him to the Court. His opinions were terse and he did not often write dissents, considering it a waste of time. Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 â February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States (1913â1921). ...
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His fierce opposition in the face of Franklin Roosevelt's legislation to fight the Great Depression led to him being labeled, one of the Four Horsemen, along with George Sutherland, Willis Van Devanter and Pierce Butler. McReynolds despised Roosevelt and never denied an attributed quote from him that stated, "I'll never resign (from the Court) as long as that crippled #### is in the White House." Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882–April 12, 1945), 32nd President of the United States, the longest-serving holder of the office and the only man to be elected President more than twice, was one of the central figures of 20th century history. ...
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McReynolds voted to strike down the Tennessee Valley Authority, the National Industrial Recovery Act and the Social Security Act and continued to vote against New Deal measures after the Court's 1937 "switch" to upholding New Deal legislation. With the death of Butler in 1939, McReynolds was the last of the Four Horsemen on the bench. TVA logo The Tennessee Valley Authority is a New Deal agency created to generate electric power and control floods in a seven-U.S.-state region around the Tennessee River Valley. ...
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McReynolds is widely considered one of the most unpleasant men to ever sit on the Court, being labeled "Scrooge" by Drew Pearson. He would not accept "Jews, drinkers, blacks, women, smokers, married or engaged individuals as law clerks." He was a blatant anti-Semite and refused to sit near Louis Brandeis (the first Jew to sit on the Court) where he belonged on the basis of seniority for the Court's annual picture to be taken in 1924; Chief Justice William Howard Taft decided that no Court picture would be taken that year. McReynolds refused to speak to Brandeis for three years following his appointment and when Brandeis retired in 1939, did not sign the customary dedicatory letter sent to Court members on their retirement. During Benjamin Cardozo's swearing in ceremony he pointedly read a newspaper muttering "another one", and did not attend Felix Frankfurter's, exclaiming "My God, another Jew on the Court!" According to John Knox (see Bibliography), McReynolds never spoke to Cardozo at all. He was also a confirmed misogynist. His unpleasant manner towards justice John Hessin Clarke is often blamed for Clarke's premature retirement from the Court in 1922. Taft said McReynolds "seems to delight in making others uncomfortable." Drew Pearson Drew Pearson (December 13, 1897âSeptember 1, 1969), born in Evanston, Illinois was an American journalist best known for his muckraking syndicated newspaper column Washington Merry-Go-Round. Pearsons father, Paul Pearson, who was a Quaker, became professor of public speaking at Swarthmore College, and the family...
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However, McReynolds had a great love of children despite never marrying. As an example, he gave very generous assistance to thirty-three children who were victims of the German bombing of London in 1941 and left a sizeable fortune to charity. When the Supreme Court Building opened, McReynolds refused to move his office from his apartment into the new building. For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1941 calendar). ...
He resigned from the court in 1941 and lived in Washington, D.C. until his death there August 24, 1946. He is buried in the Elkton Cemetery, Elkton, Kentucky. Nickname: the District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Official website: http://www. ...
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McReynolds in fiction
McReynolds is portrayed as head of the Confederate Supreme Court in Harry Turtledove's Timeline-191 books. When McReynolds declares a popular bill by President Jake Featherston unconstitutional, Featherston abolishes the court through a legal loophole. The (former) Chief Justice went to the Confederate White House to chastise the Freedom Party leader, and is instead made to admit the legality (albeit with vague reasoning) of Featherston's action or else be "accidently" murdered. Harry Turtledove at Worldcon 2005 in Glasgow Harry Norman Turtledove (born June 14, 1949), is a historian and prolific novelist who has written historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction works. ...
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Spoiler warning: Jake Featherston (188? - 194?) is a fictional character in Harry Turtledoves alternate-history Timeline-191 series of books. ...
McReynolds also appears briefly in Kermit Roosevelt III's 2005 legal thriller "In The Shadow of the Law." Kermit Kim Roosevelt III (born July 14, 1971) is a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a novelist, author of the D.C. legal thriller In the Shadow of the Law (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005). ...
Bibiliography John Knox (1907-1997), his law clerk for one year in the 1930's, wrote a fascinating memoir of his experience only published after its author's death: The forgotten memoir of John Knox : a year in the life of a Supreme Court clerk in FDR's Washington (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002). A monograph on the Justice--but which incorrectly labels him Chief Justice in the title--is I dissent : the legacy of Chief Justice James Clark McReynolds by James Edward Bond (1943- ) (Fairfax, Va. : George Mason University Press ; Lanham, MD : Distributed by arrangement with University Pub. Associates, 1992). - John Knox, "A Personal Recollection of Justice Cardozo," 6 Supreme Court Historical Society Quarterly (Fall 1984).
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