James P. McGranery
James Patrick McGranery ( born July 8, 1895 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † December 23, 1962 in Palm Beach, Florida) was an American lawyer, politician and Minister of Justice ( Attorney General ).
World War I and study
After schooling the son of Irish immigrants worked as a printer. In World War I he served first as a pilot of an observation balloon in the air service of the U.S. Army and later as adjutant of the 111th Infantry Regiment.
After military service, he finished his first education and then completed a degree in law at Temple University Law School, which he finished in 1928 with a Bachelor of Laws ( LL.B. ). He then worked as a lawyer. 1934 appointed him to the newly elected Governor of Pennsylvania, George Howard Earle, chairman of the Registration Commission of Philadelphia.
Political career
MP and judge
McGranery began his political career in 1936 with the election to the U.S. House of Representatives after he was two years earlier failed in his first candidacy. There, the Democrat from 1937 to 1943 represented the interests of the second congressional district of Pennsylvania.
In November 1943 he was appointed Assistant Minister of Justice and responsible in this role for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Immigration and Naturalization Service ( INS), the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP ) and some other agencies of the Justice Department.
On 27 June 1945 he became chief assistant to the Minister of Justice Tom C. Clark. He then worked as a judge on the U.S. District Court of Eastern Pennsylvania on 9 October 1946 to 4 April 1952.
Minister of Justice under President Truman
On April 4, 1952 President Harry S. Truman appointed him as Minister of Justice ( Attorney General ) in his cabinet. As Minister of Justice he lifted the travel ban against Charlie Chaplin, which had been imposed on him after the charges of communist sympathies.
After the end of Truman's term of office he resigned on January 20, 1953 from the Ministry of Justice and remained as a lawyer in Washington. He died while on holiday in Florida.