Biographical Note

From https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/robes_frankfurter.html:

Felix Frankfurter was born in Austria, where his family lived in the Jewish quarter of Vienna, he immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1894, during a period of mass immigration to America from eastern and southern Europe. He grew up on New York's Lower East Side, attended City College, and went on to Harvard Law School, graduating first in his class in 1906. That year, he worked briefly for a Wall Street law firm and was then appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District, under Henry L. Stimson. When President William Howard Taft appointed Stimson Secretary of War in 1911, Stimson made Frankfurter a law officer in the Bureau of Insular Affairs. During World War I, Frankfurter served as major and judge advocate. In 1919 he was a Zionist delegate to the Paris Peace Conference, and in 1920, he helped found the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). From 1914 until 1939 he served on the faculty of Harvard Law School.

In 1939 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt nominated Frankfurter to the Supreme Court. He retired in 1962.