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Herbert Brownell, Jr.

Born: 20-Feb-1904
Birthplace: Peru, NE
Died: 1-May-1996
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: Cancer - unspecified

Gender: Male
Religion: Methodist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Government
Party Affiliation: Republican

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: US Attorney General, 1953-57

Father: Herbert Brownell (university professor)
Mother: Mary Adeline Miller
Brother: Samuel Brownell
Wife: Doris A. McCarter (m. 16-Jun-1934, d. 12-Jun-1979, two daughters, two sons)
Daughter: Joan
Daughter: Ann
Son: Thomas McCarter
Son: James Barker
Wife: Marion Taylor (m. 1987, div. 1989)

    High School: Lincoln High School, Lincoln, NB (1920)
    University: BA, University of Nebraska (1924)
    Law School: Yale Law School (1927)

    US Attorney General (1953-57)
    New York State Assembly 10th (1933-37)
    Lord, Day, & Lord Partner (1929-89)
    Root, Clark, Buckner, Howland & Ballentine Associate (1927-29)
    American Bar Association
    American Law Institute
    Association of the Bar of the City of New York
    Delta Upsilon Fraternity
    New York State Bar Association 1928
    Order of the Coif
    Phi Beta Kappa Society
    Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity
    Republican National Committee Chairman (1944-46)
    Sigma Delta Chi Honor Society
    Society of Innocents
    McCarthy Hearings

Author of books:
Advising Ike: The Memoirs of Attorney General Herbert Brownell (1993, memoir, with John P. Burke)


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