1. Phillip Forman was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
13 Facts About Phillip Forman
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Phillip Forman received a Bachelor of Laws in 1919 from the Temple University Beasley School of Law.
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Phillip Forman served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919 during World War I era.
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Phillip Forman entered private practice in Trenton, New Jersey from 1919 to 1932.
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Phillip Forman was an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1923 to 1928 and was the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1928 to 1932.
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Phillip Forman was nominated by President Herbert Hoover on June 11,1932, to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey vacated by Judge William Nelson Runyon.
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Phillip Forman was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 23,1932, and received his commission on June 25,1932.
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Phillip Forman served as Chief Judge from 1951 to 1959 and as a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 1957 to 1959.
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Phillip Forman's service terminated on September 20,1959, due to his elevation to the Third Circuit.
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Phillip Forman was confirmed by the Senate on September 9,1959, and received his commission the next day.
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In 1940, Phillip Forman gave the German physicist Albert Einstein his United States Citizenship.
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Phillip Forman served the same role for the mathematician Kurt Godel.
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Phillip Forman died at a hospital in Trenton, New Jersey, on August 17,1978, at the age of 82.