LOUIS BRANDEIS

Louis Brandeis
Author: Unknown author, Source: The World's Work, 1916, Public Domain

Born November 13, 1856 in Louisville, KY

Died 1941

Worked his way up from a Boston lawyer to become a Supreme Court justice.

The 1st Jewish Supreme Court Justice, he made his mark on improving privacy rights and free speech.

Known for exposing the corruption within the Ballinger-Pinchot Affair.

At Harvard Law School he earned the highest GPA in the school’s history, and had another university named after him!

“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”