Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe Jr. (1906 - 1967)

Born 22 May 1906 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA

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Died 28 Feb 1967 at age 60 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

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Biography

Born 22 May 1906 in Boston. He graduated from Harvard College in 1928. He briefly worked in Hollywood as an assistant director and worked on pictures with Fred Allen and Jimmy Durante. Then he returned to Harvard and complete Law School in 1933. The late Justice Felix Frankfurter, still a professor at the Law School at the time, selected Howe to be a law clerk for Oliver Wendell Holmes. As a result, he became the editor of Holmes' letters and a biographer of Holmes. After his clerkship, he entered private law practice with Hill, Barlow, and Homans. After a few years there, he became a professor of law at the University of Buffalo, and became Dean of the Law School in 1939. He served in World War II, receiving the Legion of Merit and the Distinguished Service Medal. After the war, he joined the Harvard Law Faculty and continued work on Holmes' papers. he published two volumes of biography on Holmes in 1957 and 1963, covering the period up to his appointment to the Supreme Court. He was an ardent supporter of Civil Rights, primarily through the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. He married Mary Manning of Dublin, a playwright, in 1935, and they had three daughters. He died in Cambridge 28 Feb 1967.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Obituary in the Harvard Crimson, 1 March 1967 link

See also:

JOURNAL ARTICLE, Professor Mark deWolfe Howe, by Erwin N. Griswold, Harvard Law Review, Vol. 80, No. 8 (Jun., 1967), pp. 1629-1631