Charles H. Fahy

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Charles H. Fahy

Charles H. Fahy (born August 27, 1892 in Rome , Floyd County , Georgia , † September 17, 1979 in Washington, DC ) was an American lawyer and United States Solicitor General .

biography

After attending school, he first studied at the University of Notre Dame , where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1911 . A subsequent postgraduate study of law at the Law School of Georgetown University he finished in 1914 with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). After his admission to the state of New Mexico , he practiced as a lawyer before serving as a pilot after the USA entered the First World War . He was awarded the Navy Cross for his military service. After the end of the First World War he worked as a lawyer again.

Fahy (right) with President of the National Labor Relations Board, J. Warren Madden (left) (1937)

In 1932 he became prosecutor for Santa Fe , but in 1933 he moved to the United States Department of the Interior , where he was first assistant solicitor until 1935. At the same time he was from 1934 to 1935 President of the Petroleum Administrative Board . He then served as chief advisor to the National Labor Relations Board until 1940 .

In 1940 he moved to the Ministry of Justice and was initially assistant to the Solicitor General. In November 1941, he was appointed United States Solicitor General by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and held this third most important position in the Justice Department until September 1945.

Then he was first legal advisor to the Allied Control Council in Germany . Among other things, he spoke out in favor of a provisional suspension of the National Socialist Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases of July 14, 1933, until its application was again in the public interest. He was then a consultant in the US State Department from 1946 to 1947 . In 1950, Charles Fahy was finally appointed a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia . He was a member of this Federal Court of Appeals until 1967.

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SURNAME Fahy, Charles H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and United States Solicitor General
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 1979
Place of death Washington, DC