American lawyer and judge, 48th United States Attorney General (born 1862)

James Clark McReynolds

James Clark McReynolds was an American lawyer and judge from Tennessee who served as United States Attorney General under President Woodrow Wilson and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He served on the Court from 1914 to his retirement in 1941. McReynolds is best known today for his sustained opposition to the domestic programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and for his abrasive and dislikeable personality, which his contemporaries mostly viewed negatively and included documented elements of overt antisemitism and racism.

Born

1862

February 3

Died

1946

Era

1860s

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1862 Born
1946 Died

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1047 Drogo of Hauteville is elected as count of the Apulian Normans during the Norman conquest of Southern Italy.
1112 Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
1451 Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
1488 Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.

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The world in 1946

When James departed

april 1 The 8.6 Mw  Aleutian Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). A destructive tsunami reaches the Hawaiian Islands resulting in dozens of deaths, mostly in Hilo, Hawaii.
april 1 The Malayan Union is established. Protests from locals led to the establishment of the Federation of Malaya two years later.
april 17 The last French troops are withdrawn from Syria.
april 18 The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on February 3

Becky Bayless 1982– American wrestler Billy Meier 1937– Swiss author and photographer Blythe Danner 1943– American actress Bridget Regan 1982– American actress Dave Davies 1947– English musician Elizabeth Blackwell 1821–1910 American physician and educator (died 1910) Elizabeth Holmes 1984– American fraudster, founder of Theranos Felix Mendelssohn 1809–1847 German pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1847) Fran Tarkenton 1940– American football player and sportscaster

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1862

Billy Hughes 1862–1952 English-Australian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1862) Carolyn Wells 1862–1942 American novelist and poet (died 1942) Edvard Westermarck 1862– Finnish philosopher and sociologist (died 1939) George Nuttall 1862– American-British bacteriologist (died 1937) Henri Le Sidaner 1862– French painter (died 1939) Johnny Briggs 1862–1902 English cricketer and rugby player (born 1862) Maurice Maeterlinck 1862–1949 Belgian poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1949) Tomitaro Makino 1862– Japanese botanist (died 1957)

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