Frank, Jerome New

Born September 10, 1889, in New York, NY
Died January 13, 1957, in New Haven, CT

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Nominated by Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 13, 1941, to a seat vacated by Robert Porter Patterson. Confirmed by the Senate on March 20, 1941, and received commission on March 27, 1941. Service terminated on January 13, 1957, due to death.

Education:
University of Chicago, Ph.B., 1909
University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 1912

Professional Career:

Private practice, Chicago, Illinois, 1912-1929
Private practice, New York City, 1930-1933, 1936-1937
Research associate, Yale Law School, 1932
General counsel, Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 1933-1935
Special counsel, railroad reorganization, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1935
Commissioner, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1937-1941; chairman, 1939-1941

Bibliography

Ackerman, Bruce A. "Law and the Modern Mind by Jerome Frank." Daedalus 103 (1974): 119-27.

Duxbury, Neil. "Jerome Frank and the Legacy of Legal Realism." Journal of Law and Society [Great Britain] 18 (1991): 175-205.

Glennon, Robert J. The Iconoclast as Reformer: Jerome Frank's Impact on American Law. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985.

Glennon, Robert J. "Portrait of the Judge as an Activist: Jerome Frank and the Supreme Court." Cornell Law Review 61 (1976): 950-84.

Rosenberg, J. Mitchell. Jerome Frank: Jurist and Philosopher. New York: Philosophical Library, 1970.

Volkomer, Walter E. The Passionate Liberal: The Political and Legal Ideas of Jerome Frank. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1970.

Wrigley, Linda. "The Jerome N. Frank Papers." Yale University Library Gazette 48 (1974): 163-77.

Manuscript Collections

Harvard Law School
Cambridge, Mass.
Michael Smith and Herbert Packer Research Materials on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1910-1972.
Compiled for a book Smith and Packer planned on writing about the court. The collection is focused on Judges Learned Hand, Augustus Hand, Jerome Frank, Charles Clark, Thomas Swan, and Julian Mack. The materials include court opinions, interviews, research materials, collected writings and speeches, and some of Augustus Hand's correspondence.

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pa.
Jerome N. Frank [Boni & Liveright] correspondence file, 1927.
1 folder; correspondence.

Yale University
Sterling Memorial Library
New Haven, Conn.
Jerome New Frank papers, 1918-1972.
104.25 linear ft. (218 boxes, 1 folio, 1 vol.); finding aid; restricted; correspondence, legal material (including opinions, decisions, calendars, memoranda, and other papers), writings, speeches, Yale course material, and personal papers.

Oral History

Frank, Jerome. "The Reminiscences of Jerome N. Frank." Interviews conducted in 1950, 1951, and 1952, by Dean Albertson. Oral History Research Office, Butler Library, Columbia University, New York, 1952. Transcript, 194 pages. Permission required.

Portraits

May get S.E.C. Chairmanship. Washington, D.C., March 23. Reports in the Capitol say Jerome Frank, Securities and Exchange Commissioner, will be named to the Chairmanship vacated by William O. Douglas when he was nominated to the United States Supreme Court; Harris & Ewing; Glass negative; Mar. 23, 1939; Harris & Ewing Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., ref. #: LC-DIG-hec-26352. No known restrictions on publication.

Additional images:

New SEC member. Washington, D.C., Dec. 27. A new informal portrait of Jerome N. Frank who was sworn in as a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission this morning. . . .; by Harris & Ewing; Glass negative; Dec. 27, 1937; Harris & Ewing Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., ref. #: LC-H22-D-2923.

Sec. member. Washington, D.C., March 31. Jerome Frank, new member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, pictured at his desk today, 3/31/38; by Harris & Ewing; Glass negative; Mar. 31, 1938; Harris & Ewing Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., ref. #: LC-H22-D-3616.

Jerome Frank chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and William McChesney Martin Jr. president of the New York Stock Exchange; by Associated Press; Glass negative; Dec. 8, 1939; Associated Press Images, New York, N.Y., ref. #: 391208012.

Jerome Frank; by Ernest Hamlin Baker; Crayon on paper on board; 1940; Gift of Jean Baker Henrich, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., ref. #: NPG.96.TC1.

Jerome New Frank, undated; artist unknown; Photograph; n.d.; Jerome New Frank Papers, 1918-1972 (Box 189), Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., ref. #: 11857.

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