Harold Leventhal (January 5, 1915 – November 20, 1979) was a
United States circuit judge of the
.
Education and career
Leventhal was born in
New York City
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,
New York
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. He received an
Artium Baccalaureus
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degree from
Columbia University
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in 1934. He received a
Bachelor of Laws
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from
Columbia Law School
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in 1936, where he was editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review. He was a
law clerk
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for
United States Supreme Court
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justices
Harlan Fiske Stone
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(1937-1938) and
Stanley Forman Reed
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(1938). He was an Attorney for the Office of the
Solicitor General of the United States
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from 1937 to 1938 and from 1938 to 1939. He was a Chief of Litigation for the
Bituminous Coal
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Division of the
United States Department of the Interior
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from 1939 to 1940. He was assistant general counsel for the
Office of Price Administration from 1940 to 1943. He was a
United States Coast Guard Reserve
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Lieutenant Commander from 1943 to 1946. He served on the staff of Justice
Robert H. Jackson during the
Nuremberg Trials
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from 1945 to 1946. He then returned to his position as assistant general counsel for the Office of Price Administration in 1946. He was in private practice of law in
Washington, D.C. from 1946 to 1951, before returning to the Office of Price Administration as chief counsel from 1951 to 1952. He was in private practice of law in Washington, D.C. from 1952 to 1965.
Federal judicial service
Leventhal was nominated by President
Lyndon B. Johnson on March 1, 1965, to a seat on the
vacated by Judge
Wilbur Kingsbury Miller
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Education and career
Born in Owensboro, Kentucky, Miller attended the Un ...
. He was confirmed by the
United States Senate
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on April 7, 1965, and received his commission on April 7, 1965. His service terminated on November 20, 1979, due to his death. He was succeeded by Judge
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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.
Law clerks
*
David M. Becker
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Becker graduated from Columbia College (19 ...
, SEC General Counsel
*
Samuel Estreicher, NYU Law Professor
*
Judith A. Miller
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, Department of Defense General Counsel
See also
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*
List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 9)
*
List of Jewish American jurists
References
Sources
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1915 births
1979 deaths
20th-century American Jews
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Columbia Law School alumni
Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States
Law clerks of Harlan F. Stone
Lawyers from New York City
United States Coast Guard officers
United States court of appeals judges appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson
20th-century American judges