Francis Biddle
| Francis Beverley Biddle | |
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Francis B. Biddle in 1935
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| 58th United States Attorney General | |
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In office August 26, 1941 – June 26, 1945 |
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| President |
Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry S. Truman |
| Preceded by | Robert H. Jackson |
| Succeeded by | Tom C. Clark |
| 24th United States Solicitor General | |
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In office January 22, 1940 – August 25, 1941 |
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| President | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Preceded by | Robert H. Jackson |
| Succeeded by | Charles H. Fahy |
| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit | |
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In office March 4, 1939 – January 22, 1940 |
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| Appointed by | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Preceded by | Joseph Buffington |
| Succeeded by | Herbert Funk Goodrich |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
May 19, 1886 Paris, France |
| Died | October 4, 1968 (aged 82) Wellfleet, Massachusetts, United States |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Katherine Garrison Chapin |
| Children | Edmund Randolph Biddle Garrison Chapin Biddle |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Occupation | Lawyer; Civil servant |
| Profession | Government |
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Francis Beverley Biddle (May 19, 1886 – October 4, 1968) was an American lawyer and judge who was Attorney General of the United States during World War II and who served as the primary American judge during the postwar Nuremberg trials.
Biddle was born in Paris, France, while his family was living abroad. He was one of four sons of Frances Brown (née Robinson) and Algernon Sydney Biddle, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania of the Biddle family. The four sons were:
He was also a great-great-grandson of Edmund Randolph (1753–1813) the seventh Governor of Virginia, the second Secretary of State, and the first United States Attorney General, and a half second cousin four times removed of the 4th President of the United States James Madison. He graduated from Groton School, where he participated in boxing. He earned degrees from Harvard University in 1909 (A.B.) and 1911 (law degree).
He first worked as a private secretary to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. from 1911 to 1912. He spent the next 27 years practicing law in Philadelphia. In 1912, he supported the presidential candidacy of former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's renegade Bull Moose Party. He was also served briefly during World War I as a private the United States Army from October 23 to November 30, 1918. He served as special assistant to the U.S. attorney of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1922 to 1926.
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