28 Facts About Harlan Stone

Harlan Fiske Stone was an American attorney and jurist who served as an associate justice of the US Supreme Court from 1925 to 1941 and then as the 12th chief justice of the United States from 1941 until his death in 1946.

Harlan Stone served as the US Attorney General from 1924 to 1925 under President Calvin Coolidge, with whom he had attended Amherst College as a young man.

In 1941, President Franklin D Roosevelt nominated Stone to succeed the retiring Charles Evans Hughes as Chief Justice, and the Senate quickly confirmed Stone.

The Harlan Stone Court presided over several cases during World War II, and Harlan Stone's majority opinion in Ex parte Quirin upheld the jurisdiction of a US military tribunal over the trial of eight German saboteurs.

Harlan Stone had one of the shortest terms of any Chief Justice, and was the first Chief Justice not to have served in elected office.

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When Harlan Stone was two years old, his family moved to western Massachusetts where he grew up.

Harlan Stone's father wished him to become a scientific farmer, and Stone matriculated at the Massachusetts Agricultural College where he was expelled in his second year for a scuffle with an instructor.

Harlan Stone later enrolled at Amherst College where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1894.

Harlan Stone attended Columbia Law School from 1895 to 1898, received an LL.

Harlan Stone was a professor there from 1902 to 1905 and eventually served as the school's dean from 1910 to 1923.

Harlan Stone lived in The Colosseum, an apartment building near campus.

Harlan Stone was impatient with men who took advantage of the benefits of life in America – using postage stamps was his example – without accepting the burdens of citizenship.

In one of his first acts as Attorney General, Harlan Stone fired Daugherty's cronies in the Department of Justice and replaced them with men of integrity.

Harlan Stone especially opposed the Progressive Party's candidate, Robert M La Follette, who had proposed that Congress be empowered to reenact any law that the Supreme Court had declared unconstitutional.

Harlan Stone found this idea threatening to the integrity of the judiciary as well as the separation of powers.

Harlan Stone's nomination was greeted with general approval, although there were rumors that Stone might have been kicked upstairs because of his antitrust activities.

The nomination was returned by the Senate to committee a few days later, and Harlan Stone became the first Supreme Court nominee to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on their nomination on January 28,1925.

Harlan Stone was confirmed by the Senate on February 5,1925 by a vote of 71—6 and received his commission the same day.

On March 2,1925, Harlan Stone took the oath as an associate justice administered by Chief Justice William Howard Taft.

Harlan Stone was confirmed by a voice vote in the Senate on June 27,1941 and received his commission on July 3,1941.

Harlan Stone remained in this position for the rest of his life.

Harlan Stone wrote one of the major opinions in establishing the standard for state courts to have personal jurisdiction over litigants in International Shoe Co.

Harlan Stone was the fourth chief justice to have previously served as an Associate Justice and the second to have served in both positions consecutively.

Harlan Stone was suddenly stricken while in an open session of the Supreme Court.

Harlan Stone had just finished reading aloud his dissent in Girouard v United States.

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Harlan Stone died of a cerebral hemorrhage on April 22,1946, at his Washington DC home.

Harlan Stone was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree from Amherst College in 1900, and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Amherst in 1913.

Harlan Stone's brother was Winthrop Stone, president of Purdue University.