James McReynolds

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James McReynolds was a Supreme Court Justice between 1914 and 1941.

He was born on February 3, 1862, in Kentucky. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, then he studied law at the University of Virginia. After graduating in 1884, he went on to work for Howell Jackson, a Tennessee senator. Later he moved to Washington D.C. where he worked for the Attorney General. He practiced law in New York, and in 1913, he was named Attorney General by Woodrow Wilson.

He was one of the "Four Horsemen" who was willing to declare as unconstitutional the liberal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. He was adamant about the policy of laissez faire; he believed the Constitution supported it.

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