William Douglas

Nonpartisan

Prior offices:

Supreme Court of the United States

Years in office: 1975 - 1980

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Years in office: 1939 - 1975

Education

Bachelor's

Whitman College, 1920

Law

Columbia Law, 1925

Personal

Birthplace

Minnesota

William Orville Douglas (1898-1980) was an Associate Justice on theSupreme Court of the United States. He joined the court in 1939 after a nomination from PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt. OnNovember 12, 1975, Douglas assumedsenior status and continued to serve in this capacity until his death onJanuary 19, 1980. Prior to joining the court, Douglas was the chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.^[1]

Douglas was one of nine justices nominated to the Supreme Court by President Roosevelt. He served duringThe Hughes Court,The Stone Court,The Vinson Court,The Warren Court andThe Burger Court.^[2]

Education

Douglas received his undergraduate degree from Whitman College in 1920 and hisLL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1925.^[1]

Professional career

• 1937-1939: Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission
• 1936-1939: Commissioner, Securities and Exchange Commission
• 1934-1936: Director, Securities and Exchange Commission Protective Study Committee
• 1928-1936: Sterling professor of law, Yale Law School
• 1926-1928: Assistant professor of law, Columbia Law School
• 1925-1926: Attorney in private practice, New York City^[1]

Judicial nominations and appointments

Supreme Court of the United States

Douglas was nominated by PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt on March 20, 1939 to replace JusticeLouis Brandeis. He was confirmed by the Senate on April 4th, and received commission onApril 15, 1939. OnNovember 12, 1975, Douglas assumedsenior status and continued to serve in this capacity until his death onJanuary 19, 1980.^[1] He was succeeded to this post by JusticeJohn Paul Stevens.

See also

• History of the Supreme Court

External links

• Justice Douglas' Biography from theFederal Judicial Center

Footnotes

v • e Justices of theSupreme Court of the United States
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Senior justices	Breyer •Kennedy •Souter
Former chief justices	Burger •Chase •Ellsworth •Fuller •Hughes •Jay •Marshall •Rehnquist •Rutledge •Stone •Taft •Taney •Vinson •Waite •Warren • White
Former associate justices	O'Connor •Baldwin •Barbour •Black •Blackmun •Blair •Blatchford •Bradley •Brandeis •Brennan •Brewer •Brown •Burton •Butler •Byrnes •Campbell •Cardozo •Catron •Chase •Clark •Clarke •Clifford •Curtis •Cushing •Daniel •Davis •Day •Douglas •Duvall •Field •Fortas •Frankfurter •Ginsburg •Goldberg •Gray •Grier •Harlan I •Harlan II •Holmes •Hunt •Iredell •H. Jackson •R. Jackson •T. Johnson •W. Johnson, Jr. •J. Lamar •L. Lamar •Livingston •Lurton •Marshall •Matthews •McKenna •McKinley •McLean •McReynolds •Miller •Minton •Moody •Moore •Murphy •Nelson •Paterson •Peckham •Pitney •Powell •Reed •Roberts •W. Rutledge •Sanford •Scalia •Shiras •Stevens •Stewart •Story •Strong •Sutherland •Swayne •Thompson •Todd •Trimble •Van Devanter •Washington •Wayne •B. White •Whittaker •Wilson •Woodbury •Woods

v • e Federal judges nominated byFranklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1940)
1933	Bell •Bratton •Donohoe •FitzHenry •Garrecht •Keefe •Ragon •Stone •Woodrough
1934	Allen •Bowen •Holly •Hulbert •Long •Major •Myers •Rippey •Sullivan
1935	Baldwin •Denman •Faris •Ford •Hamilton •Haney •Holmes •Mahoney •Martin •Mathews •McDuffie •Moore •Roche •A. L. Stephens •H. M. Stephens •Sweeney • Yankwich
1936	Abruzzo •Clancy •Davidson •Davis •Holland •Lederle •Leibell •Ling •Mandelbaum •Maris •Pollard •Thomas •Underwood
1937	Adair •Biggs •Black •Burke •Collet •Druffel •Edgerton •Groner •Healy •Jackson •Jenney •Kloeb •Major •McColloch •Miller •Mize •Murrah •Rice •Stephens •Sullivan •Swinford •Treanor •Trimble •Vinson •Watkins •Williams •Wyche
1938	Clark •Conger •Ford •Hamilton •Laws •Maris •McCord •Murphree •Reed
1939	Allred •Arant •Beaumont •Biddle •Black •Clark •Darr •Davies •Dobie •Douglas •Duffy •Frankfurter •Goldsborough •Huxman •Igoe •Jones •Kalodner •Kerner, Sr. •Lemley •Lumpkin •Magruder •Miller •Morris •Picard •Porterie •Roberts •Rutledge •Walker •Welsh •Whaley •Whitaker •Wilkin
1940	Bard •Barker •Barksdale •Boyd •Broaddus •Caillouet •Campbell •Dobie •Ganey •Goodrich •Harrison •Hartigan •Johnsen •Jones •Leamy •Mahoney •Martin •Murphy •Murrah •O'Connor •Oliver •Pine •Russell •Savage •Schwellenbach •Walker •Waller

v • e Federal judges nominated byFranklin Delano Roosevelt (1941-1945)
1941	Bright •Byrnes •Eicher •Frank •Freed •Healey •Jackson •Leahy •Leavy •Lovett •Madden •McAllister •McGuire •Miller •Minton •Moore •Riddick •Rifkind •J. Smith •W. Smith •Stone •Timmerman •Vogel •Waring •Woodbury •Wyzanski
1942	Brennan •Cole •Delehant •Ekwall •Goodman •Hall •Hannay •Keeling •Meaney
1943	Arnold •Chandler •Clark •Duncan •Helvering •Hulen •Lawrence •Lee •McLaughlin •Mullins •Rutledge •Swygert • Waller
1944	Bone •Connor •Graven •Hutcheson •Kennedy •LaBuy •O'Connell •Schweinhaut •Shaw
1945	Brown •Davis •Foley •Laws •Ridge