Learned Hand
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Billings Learned Hand was an American jurist, lawyer, and judicial philosopher. He served as a federal trial judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York from 1909 to 1924 and as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1924 to 1961.
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Samuel Hand, Learned's father, was a successful lawyer who died at age 52.
The Albany Academy pictured in 1907
In 1914, Hand moved his offices across Broadway from the dilapidated Post-Office-Court Building (left) into the recently completed Woolworth Building (center), then the tallest in the world.
Hand (seen pictured in 1910) sat on the federal trial court in Manhattan for fifteen years.!["Conscription", a drawing by Henry J. Glintenkamp published in The Masses in 1917 and deemed by the postmaster of New York City "to arouse discontent and disaffection"[76]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Conscription.jpg)
"Conscription", a drawing by Henry J. Glintenkamp published in The Masses in 1917 and deemed by the postmaster of New York City "to arouse discontent and disaffection"[76]Awards 1
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About this person
Country
United StatesCategory
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
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Lived 1872 to 1961 · aged 89
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