Charles H. Fahy

Charles H. Fahy ( born August 27, 1892 in Rome, Floyd County, Georgia, † September 17, 1979 in Washington, DC) was an American lawyer and United States Solicitor General.

Biography

After school he studied at the University of Notre Dame and earned there in 1911 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). A subsequent post-graduate studies in law at the Law School of Georgetown University, he finished 1914 with a Bachelor of Laws ( LL.B. ). After his admission in the state of New Mexico, he worked as a lawyer before he served after the United States entered the First World War as a pilot. For his military services he was awarded the Navy Cross. After the end of World War II, he worked as a lawyer again.

In 1932 he was prosecuting attorney of Santa Fe, however, changed in 1933 in the Ministry of Interior of the United States, where he was Assistant to the Solicitor to 1935 first. At the same time, he was from 1934 to 1935 president of the Petroleum Management Authority ( Petroleum Administrative Board). After that he worked until 1940 as chief advisor to the Office for National Industrial Relations ( National Labor Relations Board ).

In 1940 he joined the Ministry of Justice and was initially Assistant to the Solicitor General. In November 1941 he was appointed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the United States Solicitor General and held this third most important position in the Justice Department until September 1945.

Subsequently, he was the first legal advisor to the Allied Control Council in Germany. Among other things, he called for a temporary suspension of the Nazi Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring July 14, 1933, unless an application lies again in the public interest. After that, he was from 1946 to 1947 consultants in the U.S. State Department. 1950 Charles Fahy was finally appointed a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. This federal appeals court, he belonged to until 1967.

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