Reed, Stanley Forman

Born December 31, 1884, in Minerva, KY
Died April 2, 1980, in Huntington, NY

Federal Judicial Service:
Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
Nominated by Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 15, 1938, to a seat vacated by George Sutherland. Confirmed by the Senate on January 25, 1938, and received commission on January 27, 1938. Assumed senior status on February 25, 1957. Service terminated on April 2, 1980, due to death.

Supreme Court Oath:
January 31, 1938

Allotment as Circuit Justice:

Ninth Circuit, February 7, 1938-February 11, 1940
Eighth Circuit, February 12, 1940-October 13, 1941
Tenth Circuit, February 12, 1940-October 13, 1941
Sixth Circuit, October 14, 1941-February 25, 1957
Second Circuit, November 13, 1945-October 13, 1946, April 26, 1954-November 21, 1954

Education:
Columbia Law School
University of Virginia School of Law
Kentucky Wesleyan College, B.A., 1902
Yale College, B.A., 1906
Read law, 1910

Professional Career:

U.S. Army first lieutenant, Intelligence Division, 1917-1918
Private practice, Maysville and Ashland, Kentucky, 1910-1929
State representative, Kentucky, 1912-1916
General counsel, Federal Farm Board, 1929-1932
General counsel, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1932-1935
Solicitor general of the United States, 1935-1938

Bibliography

Fassett, John D. New Deal Justice: The Life of Stanley Reed of Kentucky. New York: Vantage Press, 1994.

Prickett, Morgan D.S. “Stanley Foreman Reed: Perspectives on a Judicial Epitaph.” Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 2 (Winter 1981): 343-71.

Manuscript Collections

University of Kentucky
Lexington, Ky.
Stanley F. Reed collection, 1926-1977.
377 boxes; finding aid; collection contains material from Reed's law practice, his tenure as general counsel of the Federal Farm Board (1929-1932), working papers and briefs of cases he argued while U.S. solicitor general (1935-1938), papers documenting his service on the U.S. Supreme Court, personal correspondence, and papers documenting cases he argued before the U.S. Court of Claims (1957-1969) and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Oral History

Reed, Stanley F. "Justice Stanley F. Reed." Interview conducted on November 12, 1975, by Terry L. Birdwhistell. Fred M. Vinson Oral History Project, Special Collections and Archives, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1975. Audiotape, 25 minutes; transcript 16 pages.

Reed, Stanley F. "The Reminiscences of Stanley F. Reed." Oral History Research Office, Butler Library, Columbia University, New York, 1959. Transcript, 350 pages.

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