Louis Brandeis
Louis Brandeis
Louis Dembitz Brandeiswas an American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Jewish immigrant parents from Bohemia, who raised him in a secular home. He attended Harvard Law School, graduating at the age of twenty with the highest grade average in the law school's history. Brandeis settled in Boston, where he founded a law firmand became a recognized lawyer through his work on progressive...
ProfessionSupreme Court Justice
Date of Birth13 November 1856
CityLouisville, KY
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.