Samuel Irving Rosenman

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Samuel Irving Rosenman, 1930

Samuel Irving Rosenman (born February 13, 1896 in San Antonio , Texas , † June 24, 1973 in New York City , New York ) was an American lawyer who served as the first legal advisor to the White House between 1943 and 1946 .

Life

Degree, lawyer and politician

After attending school, Rosenman began studying law , which he interrupted after the United States entered the First World War to do his military service in the US Army . After the war he resumed his studies at the Law School of Columbia University again and graduated in 1919 with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from.

Rosenman, who was a member of the academic societies Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Sigma Rho , then took up a practice as a lawyer before he was elected as a candidate for the Democratic Party of the New York State Assembly in 1922, of which he was a member until 1926. After serving as the Bill Drafting Commissioner for the State Administration of New York State between 1926 and 1928, he was legal advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt , who was Governor of New York at the time, from 1929 to 1932 . At the same time he worked as Roosevelt's speechwriter and coined the term “New Deal for the American people” used for Roosevelt's New Deal program in the 1932 presidential election campaign .

White House judges and legal advisers

At the end of Roosevelt's term as governor Rosenman in 1932 as a judge on the New York Court of Appeals , the Court of Appeals of the State, appointed and exercised this magistracy until 1943.

In 1943, Rosenman was appointed the first White House Counsel by Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was now US President . He held this office even after US Vice President Harry S. Truman became the new US President after the sudden death of Roosevelt on April 12, 1945 until he was succeeded by Clark M. Clifford in 1946.

After retiring from government service, he was a founding partner of the Rosenman Goldmark Colin & Kaye law firm from 1946 until his death . Rosenman, who temporarily served on the board of directors of the Repertory Theater at Lincoln Center , also served as President of the New York City Bar from 1964 to 1966 ( Association of the Bar of the City of New York ).

His granddaughter, Lynn Garland, is married to Merrick B. Garland , who has been a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Washington, DC District since 1997 .

Publications

  • Working With Roosevelt Harper, New York 1952.
  • Presidential Style: Some Giants and a Pygmy in the White House , co-author Dorothy Rosenman, 1976

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Announcement about the establishment of a law firm (PDF; 50 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Rosenman, Samuel Irving
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Presidential Advisor
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH San Antonio , Texas
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1973
Place of death New York City , New York