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.

While on the Supreme court, he refused to sit next to Justice Louis D. Brandeis, the first Jewish Justice on the Supreme Court."A possibly apocryphal story is that Wilson did not think much of McReynolds's work at the Department of Justice, but instead of firing him, decided to rid himself of McReynolds by nominating him to the Supreme Court in 1914. If true, Wilson's decision had terrifically adverse consequences for the United States. McReynolds was a racist and anti-Semite."[Citation Needed]

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.

McReynolds never married. He died on August 24, 1946.

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