Credit: Courtesy of Temple University, Urban Archives, Philadelphia, Pa.
One of the four sons of University of Pennsylvania law professor Algernon Biddle, Francis Biddle (1886-1968) worked as lawyer and special assistant United States attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania before becoming chairman of the National Labor Relations Board in 1934. After serving as both a judge of the United States Circuit of Appeals and as U. S. Solicitor General, Biddle became Attorney General of the United States in 1941 and served in that position throughout World War II. Today, Biddle is most famous as the primary American judge during the Nuremberg trials.
