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About Harlan F. Stone
Harlan Fiske Stone was an American attorney who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1925 to 1941 and then as the 12th chief justice of the United States from 1941 until his death in 1946. He also served as the U.S. Attorney General from 1924 to 1925 under President Calvin Coolidge, with whom he had attended Amherst College as a young man. His most famous dictum was that "Courts are not the only agency of government that must be assumed to have capacity to govern."
Everything about Harlan F. Stone →- Occupation
- lawyer, judge, university teacher, politician
- Position held
- Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, United States Attorney General, Chief Justice of the United States
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- October 11, 1872
- Died
- April 22, 1946