Thomas D. Thacher

Thomas Day Thacher ( born September 10 1881 in Tenafly, New Jersey, † November 12, 1950 in New York City ) was an American jurist who served as a federal judge and United States Solicitor General.

Biography

After attending the Taft School and Phillips Academy in Andover studied the son of a lawyer from Yale University and earned a Bachelor of Arts there in 1904 (BA). A subsequent post-graduate studies in law at the Law School of Yale University, he finished in 1906. Upon his admission to the bar in New York State, he worked for Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, the law firm of his father, works.

One year on, he became in 1907 assistant to the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York ( Assistant U.S. Attorney ), returned after termination of this Office 1910 to Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett and was finally back from 1914 to 1925 Partner of the firm. During the First World War he served 1917-1918 service at the American Red Cross. 1925 he was appointed a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. This office at the Federal District Court he held until 1930.

In March 1930 President Herbert Hoover appointed him Solicitor General. Thacher already held the third-highest official in the Ministry of Justice until May 1933. At the same time he was 1931-1949 and President of the Yale Corporation, which is responsible for the administration and the economic concerns of Yale University.

After a period as President of the Bar Association of New York City from 1933 to 1935, he was there for a year chairman of the municipal statute revision commission ( Charter Revision Commission) and 1943 urban for some time consultant in matters of corporation law. Thacher Last time was 1943-1948 Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York (New York Court of Appeals ).