Six former presidents of the American Bar Association opposed the nomination, as did the president of Brandeis’s alma mater, Harvard University. Brandeis for the Supreme Court in 1916, the nomination generated more adverse reaction than any previous Supreme Court appointment in American legal history.

Brandeis: Justice for the People, By Philippa Strum. Mason and the Art of Judicial Biography'. 'Lifting the Veil: The Judicial Biographies of Alpheus T. Luminaries: Princeton Faculty Remembered. 'Alpheus Mason, an Ex-Professor and Author, 90'. William Howard Taft: Chief Justice (1964).The States Rights Debate: Antifederalism and the Constitution (1964).The Supreme Court: Palladium of Freedom (1962).In Quest of Freedom: American Political Thought and Practice (1959).The Supreme Court from Taft to Warren (1958).Harlan Fiske Stone: Pillar of the Law (1956).Security through Freedom: American Political Thought and Practice (1955).Bureaucracy Convicts Itself: The Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy of 1910 (1941).Brandeis: Lawyer and Judge in the Modern State (1933).He died on October 31, 1989, at his home in Princeton, New Jersey. He continued teaching at other colleges and universities until 1980. At Princeton, he held the McCormick chair and was named the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence when he retired. In 1925, he came back to Princeton where he remained until his retirement in 1968. Mason was on the Duke University faculty for two years after receiving his PhD. At Princeton, he grew close with Edward Samuel Corwin, who 'became mentor and also his benefactor and friend'. He graduated from Dickinson College with an AB in 1920 and an AM and PhD from Princeton University in 19, respectively. Īlpheus Thomas Mason was born on September 18, 1899, in Snow Hill, Maryland. He wrote several biographies of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, including Louis Brandeis, Harlan F. Alpheus Thomas Mason (September 18, 1899 – October 31, 1989) was an American legal scholar and biographer.

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