William D. Mitchell
William DeWitt Mitchell ( born September 9, 1874 in Winona, Minnesota; † August 24, 1955 in Syosset, New York) was an American lawyer, politician, Solicitor General and Minister of Justice.
Studies, professional and military career
Mitchell, whose father was a judge of the Supreme Court of Minnesota, first completed in 1891 a study of electrical engineering at Yale University, but which he abandoned after two years. Then he studied law at the University of Minnesota, he graduated in 1896 with a Bachelor of Laws ( LL.B. ). After admission to the bar he opened a law practice in Saint Paul, before he was co-founder in 1902 of the Community law firm how, Taylor & Mitchell, who became one of the largest law firms in the Midwest soon. He was also a 1919 member of the Regional Council of the U.S. Railway Administration.
During the Spanish- American War, from April to August 1898 he was lieutenant of the 15th volunteer infantry regiment of Minnesota. Subsequently, he was a military lawyer ( Judge Advocate ) of the 2nd Army Corps. Then during the First World War he was promoted to colonel. As such, he reorganized the 6th Infantry Regiment of Minnesota.
After leaving the Justice Department, he settled as a lawyer in New York City.
Solicitor General and Minister of Justice
On June 4, 1925, President Calvin Coolidge appointed him to the Solicitor General. He was thus the officials of the Justice Department who represents the federal government before the Supreme Court, if it is a party in a lawsuit. According to the Minister of Justice and his deputy ( Deputy Attorney General ), he held so that the third rank in the hierarchy of the Ministry of Justice.
Four years later he was appointed as President Coolidge's successor, Herbert C. Hoover, on March 4, 1929 his Minister of Justice. This office he held until the end of Hoover's presidency on March 4, 1933.
During this period, the United States Supreme Court met on 27 May 1929, the decision that the so-called pocket veto is constitutional.
Later he was in 1938 chairman of a committee to revise the law of civil procedure process and chief legal advisor to the Joint Committee of Congress to study the Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.