Ernest Angell | |
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| President of theAmerican Civil Liberties Union | |
| In office 1950–1969 | |
| Preceded by | John Haynes Holmes |
| Succeeded by | Edward J. Ennis |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1889-06-01)June 1, 1889 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | January 11, 1973(1973-01-11) (aged 83) New York City, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | |
| Education | Harvard College (BA,LLB) Bard College (LLD) |
Ernest Angell (June 1, 1889 – January 11, 1973) was an American lawyer and author who served as President of theAmerican Civil Liberties Union for 19 years,[1] from 1950 to 1969.[2]
Angell was born inCleveland on June 1, 1889,[2] the son of Elgin Angell and Lily (née Curtis) Angell. When he was 9 years old, his father (a lawyer who practiced withRobert E. McKisson) was killed in the sinking of theSSLa Bourgogne.[3]
He graduated fromHarvard College, where he was electedPhi Beta Kappa, in 1911, and fromHarvard Law School in 1913. He received anLL.D. degree fromBard College in 1954.[2]
DuringWorld War I, Angell served as an infantry Captain in theAmerican Expeditionary Force, a part of theU.S. Army, in Europe.[2]
Beginning in 1920, he practicedcorporation law in New York with Hardin, Hess, Eder & Freschi and Spence, Windels, Walser, Hotchkiss & Angell before joining theU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as a regional administrator for New York from April 1, 1936, to May 1, 1938, replacing Robert G. Page.[4] He served as chairman of the National Economy League. Angell wrote a "short book on the Supreme Court", entitledSupreme Court Primer, and was the author of various magazine articles.[5]
In 1941, he succeededCharles Douglas Jackson as the second president of the Council for Democracy, which had been formed in 1940.[6] In 1948, he was selected by theU.S. Civil Service Commission to be chairman of theLoyalty Board for the second region, covering New York and New Jersey.[7]
From 1950 to 1969, Angell succeeded Dr.John Haynes Holmes to serve as president of theAmerican Civil Liberties Union.[8] After his retirement in 1969, he was succeeded byEdward Ennis, who had been the general counsel of the ACLU since 1955.[1]
In 1915, he married his first wifeKatharine Sergeant (1892–1977) inBrookline, Massachusetts.[9] Katharine, aBoston Brahmin, was a graduate ofMiss Winsor's School andBryn Mawr before becoming the fiction editor atThe New Yorker. Before their divorce in 1929,[10] they were the parents of:[11]
Katherine had had an affair with writerE. B. White and married him after her divorce from Angell. In 1939, Angell remarried to Elizabeth Brosius (née Higgins) Chapin, the former wife ofVinton Chapin, theUnited States Ambassador to Luxembourg.[5] Before her death in 1970,[13] they were the parents of two children together:[2]
Angell died at 156East 66th Street, his home in Manhattan, on January 11, 1973, at age 83, after suffering heart problems.[2]
My father, Ernest Angell, lost his father at the age of nine, in a marine disaster, the 1898 sinking of the French liner La Bourgogne
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