"Justice of the Supreme Court" Arthur Goldberg Signed TLS COA

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Up for auction "Justice of the Supreme Court" Arthur Goldberg Hand Signed TLS as Secretary of Labor.
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Arthur Joseph Goldberg
(August 8, 1908 – January 19, 1990) was an American
statesman and jurist who served as the 9th
U.S. Secretary of Labor
,
an
Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
, and the 6th
United States Ambassador to the United Nations
. Born in
Chicago
,
Illinois
,
Goldberg graduated from the
Northwestern University School of Law
in 1930. He became a prominent labor attorney and helped arrange the merger of
the
American Federation of Labor
and the
Congress of Industrial Organizations
.
During
World War II
,
he served in the
Office of Strategic Services
, organizing
European resistance to
Nazi Germany
. In 1961, President
John F.
Kennedy
appointed Goldberg as the Secretary of Labor. In 1962,
Kennedy successfully nominated Goldberg to the Supreme Court to fill a vacancy caused
by the retirement of
Felix Frankfurter
. Goldberg aligned with the
liberal bloc
of justices and wrote the
majority opinion in
Escobedo v. Illinois
. In 1965,
Goldberg resigned from the bench to accept appointment by President
Lyndon B.
Johnson
as the Ambassador to the United Nations. In that role, he
helped draft
UN Resolution 242
in the
aftermath of the
Six-Day War
. He ran for the position of
Governor of New York
in
1970
but was defeated by
Nelson Rockefeller
. After his defeat, he served
as president of the
American Jewish Committee
and continued to
practice law.