Biddle, Francis Beverley

Biddle, Francis Beverley,1886–1968, U.S. Attorney General (1941–45), b. Paris, France, of American parents. Secretary to Associate Justice O. W.Holmes(1912), he became a successful corporation lawyer. He served as National Labor Relations Board chairman (1934–35) and as appellate judge (1939–40) before succeeding Robert H.Jacksonas solicitor general (1940) and as attorney general. Biddle was (1945–46) a U.S. judge for the trial of war criminals at Nuremberg.

See his autobiographicalA Casual Past(1961)和In Brief Authority(1962).

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