Bailey Aldrich was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and previously was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
13 Facts About Bailey Aldrich
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Bailey Aldrich was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1954.
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Bailey Aldrich was in private practice in Boston from 1932 to 1954.
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Bailey Aldrich was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 23,1954, and received his commission on April 27,1954.
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Bailey Aldrich's service terminated on September 14,1959, due to his elevation to the First Circuit.
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Bailey Aldrich was nominated by President Eisenhower on February 26,1959, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit vacated by Judge Calvert Magruder.
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Bailey Aldrich was confirmed by the Senate on September 9,1959, and received his commission the next day.
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Bailey Aldrich served as Chief Judge and as a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 1965 to 1972.
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Bailey Aldrich's service terminated on September 25,2002, due to his death in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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In February 1956, McCarthy wrote to complain to President Eisenhower, accusing Judge Bailey Aldrich of harboring sympathy toward Communists.
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Bailey Aldrich had learned from the New Bedford Standard-Times that Aldrich initially refused, on principle, to sign a non-Communist affidavit card upon his appointment as a trustee to the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital.
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Bailey Aldrich married Elizabeth Perkins, who had studied at the Buckingham School and Bryn Mawr College.
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Bailey and Elizabeth Aldrich had two sons: David and the poet Jonathan Aldrich.