Hand, Augustus Noble

Born July 26, 1869, in Elizabethtown, NY
Died October 28, 1954, in Middlebury, VT

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Nominated by Woodrow Wilson on September 28, 1914, to a seat vacated by George C. Holt. Confirmed by the Senate on September 30, 1914, and received commission on September 30, 1914. Service terminated on June 1, 1927, due to appointment to another judicial position.

Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Received a recess appointment from Calvin Coolidge on May 19, 1927, to a seat vacated by Charles Merrill Hough; nominated to the same position by Calvin Coolidge on December 6, 1927. Confirmed by the Senate on January 18, 1928, and received commission on January 18, 1928. Assumed senior status on June 30, 1953. Service terminated on October 28, 1954, due to death.

Education:
Harvard College, A.B., 1890
Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1894

Professional Career:

Private practice, New York City, 1895-1914

Manuscript Collections

Cornell University
Ithaca, N.Y.
Hand family papers, ca. 1788-1953.
62.8 cubic ft.; finding aid; correspondence, diaries, notebooks, and miscellaneous papers.

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.

Portraits

Augustus Noble Hand; artist unknown; Photograph; n.d.; Legal Portrait Collection, Harvard Law School Library, Cambridge, Mass., record identifier: olvwork371850. Reference image courtesy Historical & Special Collections, Harvard Law School Library. Further reproduction prohibited without permission of the library.

Additional images:

Augustus Noble Hand; by Sidney Edward Dickinson; Oil on canvas; 1947; Legal Portrait Collection, Harvard Law School Library, Cambridge, Mass., ref. #: 48.1P; Reproduced as Augustus Noble Hand; by Sidney Edward Dickinson; Photograph; 1954; Legal Portrait Collection, Harvard Law School Library, Cambridge, Mass. Record identifier: olvwork178868.

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit judges; by Erich Hartmann; Group photograph; 1953; Learned Hand Visuals Collection, Harvard Law School Library, Cambridge, Mass., record identifier: olvwork371818.

Augustus Hand; artist unknown; Photograph; n.d.; U.S. Courts Library for the Second Circuit, Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse, New York, N.Y.

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