Nathan L. Jacobs (February 28, 1905 – January 25, 1989) was a justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court in 1948 and from 1952 to 1975. Jacobs was raised in

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. After graduating the

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, he went on to receive

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and

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degrees from

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. He was law partner of

Arthur T. Vanderbilt Arthur T. Vanderbilt (July 7, 1888 – June 16, 1957) was an American judge and judicial reformer. He served as Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1948 to 1957, the first Chief Justice under the revamped New Jersey court system e ...

from 1928 to 1934 and later in his firm Frazer, Stoffer & Jacobs, where he remained until he went on the bench. From 1934 to 1939 he was chief deputy commissioner of the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission, and for three years during World War II he was district enforcement attorney for the Office of Price Administration. He taught administrative law at

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from 1929 to 1948. He was delegate to New Jersey state constitutional convention in 1947.

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Alfred E. Driscoll Alfred Eastlack Driscoll (October 25, 1902 – March 9, 1975) was an American Republican Party politician, who served in the New Jersey Senate (1939–1941) representing Camden County, who served as the 43rd governor of New Jersey, and as ...

appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1948, before the revised court organization took effect. Later that year, Chief Justice Vanderbilt named him judge of the New Jersey Superior Court and sat in the Appellate Division. In 1952, Governor Driscoll again named him to the Supreme Court, where served until his retirement in 1975. Jacobs resided in Livingston, New Jersey.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jacobs, Nathan L. 1905 births 1989 deaths Justices of the Supreme Court of New Jersey Harvard Law School alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni Politicians from Bayonne, New Jersey People from Livingston, New Jersey Rutgers School of Law–Newark faculty 20th-century American judges

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