Thurman (Wesley) Arnold - Early years

Lawyer and government official, born in Laramie, Wyoming, USA. Dean of the University of Virginia Law School (1927–30) and iconoclastic law professor at Yale (1930–7), he wrote The Folklore of Capitalism (1937). An assistant attorney general in Washington (1938–43), he spearheaded anti-trust indictments. He served as an appellate judge (1943–5) before returning to private practice.

Thurman Arnold (June 2, 1891 - November 7, 1969) was the iconoclastic Washington, D.C.

Before coming to Washington in 1938, Arnold was a professor at Yale Law School, where he took part in the legal realism movement, and published two books: The Symbols of Government (1935) and The Folklore of Capitalism (1937).

In 1943, Arnold was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He returned to private practice where, along with Paul Porter and Abe Fortas, he co-founded the firm known today as Arnold &

Early years

Thurman was born in the ranch town of Laramie, Wyoming. He earned his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1914.

Thurman married his lifelong partner Frances Longan Arnold on September 4, 1917. George married and raised a family with Elen Pearson, daughter of columnist Drew Pearson and granddaughter of newspaper heiress Cissy Patterson.