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Background
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Osmond Kessler Fraenkel was born on October 17, 1888, in New York City .[4] His parents were Joseph E. Fraenkel and Emily Kessler.[3]
He attended the Horace Mann School . In 1908, he received an A.B. magna cum laude as well as an A.M. from Harvard College . In 1911, he received an LL.B. from Columbia Law School .[3] [4]
Career
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Fraenkel helped defend labor leader Harry Bridges .
In 1910, Fraenkel was admitted to New York State bar.[3] and entered private practice.[2]
Private practice
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In 1916, Fraenkel joined and became a partner in Goldsmith & Fraenkel. In 1928, the firm became Goldsmith, Jackson & Brock through 1942.[3] In 1942, the firm became Fraenkel, Jackson & Levitt through 1945. In 1945, he became counsel to Hays, St. John, Abramson & Schulman, later Hays, St. John, Abramson & Heilbron through 1981. In 1982, he joined Rabinowitz , Boudin , Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman through his death in 1983.[2] [3]
Public practice
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He served co-counsel to the New York Civil Liberties Committee from 1934[3] (or 1935[2] ) through 1955, at which time he became general counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union [2] through 1977.[3]
He served as chair of the New York City Welfare Department Hearing Board from 1936 to 1951.[4]
In the 1930s, Fraenkel came to notoriety, first as attorney for the Scottsboro boys , then as attorney for Harry Bridges and Bertrand Russell .[2] In De Jonge v. Oregon he defended a client accused of criminal syndicalism after this person had spoken at a meeting of the communist party.[2] [4]
He defended Consumers Union 's pamphlet on contraception from Frank Comerford Walker 's opinion that it was obscene.[5]
Other cases argued include:
Fraenkel argued his last major case, United States v. Richardson , against Solicitor General Robert H. Bork .
In United States v. Richardson , Fraenkel argued against Solicitor General Robert H. Bork .
He opposed the McCarthyism of Joseph McCarthy .[2] He did legal work for the cases around Japanese American internment , the Pentagon Papers , and school prayer in the United States .[2]
National Lawyers Guild
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Fraenkel was a co-founder of the National Lawyers Guild and was present at pre-formation meeting in New York City on December 1, 1936.[7]
Personal life and death
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On December 11, 1913, Fraenkel married Helene Esberg; they had three children: Nancy (Mrs. James A. Wechsler), Carol (Mrs. Mack Lipkin), and George K.[3]
In addition to the National Lawyers Guild, Fraenkel was also a member of Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the American Arbitration Association.[3]
Fraenkel died age 94 on May 17, 1983, in New York City while walking to work.[2]
Quote
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Undated: "People should do whatever they wanted as long as they didn't hurt anyone else." – [2]
Legacy
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Norman Dorsen and Ira Glasser called Fraenkel "one of the giants in contemporary life."[2]
Awards
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1973: Florina Lasker Award from the New York Civil Liberties Union[3]
Works
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He authored more than 100 books an articles, including a book on the Sacco and Vanzetti case.[2]
The Library of Congress catalog lists the following works:
The Sacco-Vanzetti Case (1931, 1969)
Curse of bigness: miscellaneous papers of Louis D. Brandeis , edited by Osmond K. Fraenkel (1934, 1965)
Judicial interpretation of labor laws (1939)
One hundred and fifty years of the Bill of rights (1939, 1941)
Supreme court and civil liberties: How far has the court protected the Bill of rights? (1941, 1949 1952, 1955, 1960, 1963)
Our civil liberties (1944, 1969)
Bürgerliche Freiheiten; grundrechte und verfassungsmässige Freiheiten in den USA , translated by Otto Schütte (1950)
Our civil liberties
Rights we have (1971, 1974)
Rights you have (1972)
Harvard's catalog on Fraenkel's papers[3] lists three books:
The Sacco-Vanzetti Case (1931)
Our Civil Liberties (1945)
The Supreme Court and Civil Liberties (1966)
See also
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References
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^ a b c d e f g h i j k l
"Osmond Kessler Fraenkel papers" . Harvard Law School Historical & Special Collections. June 1985. Retrieved 14 August 2020 .
^ a b c d e
John R. Vile, ed. (June 1985). "Osmond Fraenkel". Great American Lawyers [2 Volumes]: An Encyclopedia . Great American Lawyers: An Encyclopedia . ABC-CLIO. p. 295. ISBN 9781576072028 . Retrieved 18 August 2020 .
^ Walker, Samuel (1990). In defense of American liberties : a history of the ACLU . New York: Oxford University Press. p. 159 . ISBN 978-0195045390 .
^ https://www.oyez.org/advocates/f/o/osmond_k_fraenkel [bare URL ]
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Rabinowitz, Victor; Ledwith, Tim Ledwith, eds. (1987). A History of the NLG: 1937-1987 . New York: National Lawyers Guild. pp. 7–8 (pre-formation). Retrieved 1 August 2017 .
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