biography
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Biddle, Francis (Beverley)
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| lived:
| (1886–1968)
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| biography:
| Lawyer and US attorney general, born in Paris, France. He was secretary to Supreme Court Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1911–12), then practised as a lawyer in Philadelphia. He was first chairman of the National Labour Relations Board (1934) and a strong defender of the Tennessee Valley Authority and other New Deal programmes. Solicitor general (1940–1) and attorney general (1941–5) of the USA, he was chief US representative at the Nuremberg war crimes trials. In addition to several books on the law and his autobiography, he wrote one novel, Llanfear Pattern (1927). |
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