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Erwin Nathaniel Griswold ( / ˈɡrɪzwɔːld, - wəld /; [1] July 14, 1904 – November 19, 1994) was an American appellate attorney and legal scholar who argued many cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Griswold served as Solicitor General of the United States (1967–1973) under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon.
Nov 21, 1994 · Griswold, Law School Legend, Dies at 90. Former Dean of Harvard Law School and U.S. Solicitor General Erwin N. Griswold, one of the most profoundly important figures in American law, died on ...
Nov 21, 1994 · A native of East Cleveland, Ohio, Erwin Griswold was born on July 14, 1904. He received a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College in Ohio in 1925, and three years later graduated summa cum laude ...
Erwin Griswold (July 14, 1904 – November 19, 1994) was U.S. Solicitor General under President Lyndon B. Johnson, Dean of Harvard Law School, and President of the American Bar Foundation. This article about a political figure is a stub .
As solicitor general of the United States, Erwin Nathaniel Griswold (1904–1994) argued unsuccessfully, in New York Times Co. v. United States (1971), that the publication of the Pentagon Papers threatened the security of the United States and that security concerns outweighed the First Amendment rights of a free press.
Sep 18, 2023 · Griswold wrote several books including Spendthrift Trusts (1936), Cases on Federal Taxation (1940), Cases on Conflict Laws (1942), and arguably his most popular, The Fifth Amendment Today, Law and Lawyers in the United States (1992). Erwin Griswold passed away on November 19, 1994, in Boston, at the age of 90.
