Arthur Goldberg

Arthur Joseph Goldberg lived from August 8, 1908 to January 19, 1990 and was an American politician and jurist who served as the ninth United States Secretary of Labor, as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and as the sixth United States ambassador to the United Nations. Born in Chicago, he graduated from the Northwestern University School of Law in 1930, became a prominent labor attorney, and helped arrange the merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. During World War II he served in the Office of Strategic Services organizing European resistance to Nazi Germany. President John F. Kennedy appointed him Secretary of Labor in 1961 and then, in 1962, successfully nominated him to the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy left by Felix Frankfurter, where Goldberg aligned with the liberal bloc and wrote the majority opinion in Escobedo v. Illinois. In 1965 he resigned from the Court to accept appointment by President Lyndon B. Johnson as ambassador to the United Nations, helping draft UN Resolution 242 after the Six-Day War. He ran for governor of New York in 1970, losing to Nelson Rockefeller, and afterward served as president of the American Jewish Committee while continuing to practice law.