Thacher, Thomas Day

Born September 10, 1881, in Tenafly, NJ
Died November 12, 1950, in New York, NY

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Nominated by Calvin Coolidge on January 9, 1925, to a seat vacated by Learned Hand. Confirmed by the Senate on January 19, 1925, and received commission on January 21, 1925. Service terminated on April 10, 1930, due to resignation.

Education:
Yale Law School
Yale University, B.A., 1904
Read law, 1906

Professional Career:

Private practice, New York City, 1906-1907, 1910-1917, 1918-1925, 1933-1943
Assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of New York, 1907-1910
Major, American Red Cross Commission to Russia, 1917-1918
Solicitor general of the United States, 1930-1933
Corporation counsel, New York City, 1943
Judge, New York State Court of Appeals, 1943-1948

Manuscript Collections

Columbia University
New York, N.Y.
Thomas D. Thacher papers, 1917-1950.
ca. 2,000 items; finding aid; restricted; collection includes correspondence, subject files, and printed material.

Yale University
Sterling Memorial Library
New Haven, Conn.
Thomas D. Thacher papers, 1914-1950.
31 linear ft.; finding aid; collection contains correspondence, memoranda, legal documents, reports, minutes of meetings, speeches, printed matter, and memorabilia.

Oral History

Thacher, Thomas Day. "The Reminiscences of Thomas Day Thacher." Interviews conducted in 1949. Oral History Research Office, Butler Library, Columbia University, New York, 1949. Transcript, 108 pages.

Portraits

To succeed Col. Donovan?--Capitol hears that Judge Thacher will be next Assistant Attorney General; by Underwood & Underwood, New York; Photograph; [ca. 1930]; Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., ref. #: LC-USZ62-101862.

Additional images:

Thomas D. Thacher; by Sidney Edward Dickinson; Oil on canvas; 1951; Court of Appeals Hall, New York State Court of Appeals, Albany.

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