COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

NOMINATION OF JOHN MARSHALL HARLAN, OF NEW YORK,
TO BE ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME

COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

FEBRUARY 24 AND 25, 1955

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CONTENTS

Testimony of

Wendell Berge, attorney at law, Washington, D. C.

John G. Buchanan, attorney at law, Pittsburgh, Pa..

Leonard J. Emmerglick, professor of law, Georgetown University,

Washington, D. C..

Edward J. Fox, Jr., chairman, committee on Federal judiciary,

American Bar Association, Easton, Pa..

Hon. John Marshall Harlan, nominee, Associate Justice, United States

Supreme Court, accompanied by William P. Rogers, Deputy

Attorney General of the United States..

Merwin K. Hart, president, National Economic Council, Inc., New

York, N. Y.

Mrs. Ernest W. Howard, legislative representative, Wheel of Progress,

Washington, D. C.......

George Racey Jordan, representing the American Coalition of New

York, New York, N. Y.

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Harry F. Klinefelter, Baltimore, Md

117

Judge Edmund H. Lewis, president, New York State Bar Association.
Herman Methfessel, attorney at law, Miami, Fla.

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Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, representing New York County Lawyers

Association, New York, N. Y

31

Whitney North Seymour, representing Bar Association, City of New
York, New York, N. Y

76

Statement of-

Hon. H. Alexander Smith, a United States Senator from the State of
New Jersey-

Mrs. Joseph S. Huxley, regent of the Maryland State Society of the

Order of the American Revolution, Baltimore, Md.

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