Goldberg, Arthur J. (Arthur Joseph), 1908-1990

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Goldberg, Arthur J. (Arthur Joseph), 1908-1990

Description:

Bio: Arthur Joseph Goldberg was born August 8, 1908, in Chicago, Illinois, the youngest of eight children of Russian immigrants. Goldberg became a prominent labor lawyer, representing striking Chicago newspaper workers on behalf of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in 1938. He served in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II as an Army officer and as a contact with the European underground labor movement. He was appointed general counsel to the CIO in 1948, Goldberg served as a negotiator and chief legal advisor in the merger of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and CIO in 1955. He played a key role in AFL-CIO policies aimed at ending corrupt union practices among affiliates. President Kennedy appointed Goldberg Secretary of Labor and he served from January 21, 1961 to September 20, 1962.
President Kennedy appointed him an associate justice of the Supreme Court replacing Felix Frankfurter. He served from October 1, 1962 to July 25, 1965. In 1965, Goldberg was persuaded by President Johnson to resign his seat on the court to replace the late Adlai Stevenson as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. In that post, he clashed with Johnson over the course of the Vietnam War. He resigned from the ambassadorship in 1968.

Source:

President Lyndon B. Johnson talking with Arthur Goldberg. Air Force One, enroute to Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois, 7/19/1965. Photo # a859-35a by Yoichi Okamoto. White House Photo Office collection, LBJ Presidential Library, public domain.

Relation:

LBJ Connection: General Counsel, CIO, 1948-1955; of Industrial Union Department, AFL-CIO, 1955-1961; Secretary of Labor, 1961-1962; Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, 1962-1965; U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., 1965-1968