COOLIDGE APPOINTS STONE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On April 2, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge appointed Harlan Fiske Stone* of New York as Attorney General of the United States.
According to a front page story in The Evening Star, the new AG "has served since 1910 as dean of Columbia Law School" but recently resigned to join the New York law firm Satterlee, Canfield and Stone.
The Attorney General and Mr. Coolidge have been friends since their college days at Amherst.
*Harlan Fiske Stone (1872-1946) was born in Chesterfield, New Hampshire & received his B.S. at Amherst College, & L.L.D. at Columbia Law School.
HFS served on the U.S. Dept of War Board of Inquiry during WWI, as AG 1924-1925, Associate Justice of the USSC 1925-1941 & Chief Justice 1941-1946.
SOURCE
"Coolidge Appoints Harlan F. Stone As Attorney General," The Evening Star, April 2, 1924, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
