Thurman Arnold
Thurman Arnold | |
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Arnold in 1939 | |
| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia | |
| In office March 18, 1943 – July 9, 1945 | |
| Appointed by | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Preceded by | Wiley Rutledge |
| Succeeded by | Bennett Champ Clark |
| United States Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division | |
| In office 1938–1943 | |
| President | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Preceded by | Robert H. Jackson |
| Succeeded by | Wendell Berge |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Thurman Wesley Arnold June 2, 1891 Laramie, Wyoming, U.S. |
| Died | November 7, 1969 (aged 78) Alexandria, Virginia, U.S. |
| Education | Princeton University (AB) Harvard University (LLB) |
Thurman Wesley Arnold (June 2, 1891 – November 7, 1969) was an American lawyer best known for his trust-busting campaign as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Department of Justice from 1938 to 1943. He later served as a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Before coming to Washington in 1938, Arnold was the mayor of Laramie, Wyoming and a professor at Yale Law School, where he took part in the legal realism movement and published two books: The Symbols of Government (1935) and The Folklore of Capitalism (1937). He also published The Bottlenecks of Business (1940).