Passport photo of Frederick Harold Stinchfield

Frederick Harold Stinchfield (May 8, 1881January 15, 1950) was an American attorney and former president of the

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(ABA). Stinchfield graduated from

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in 1905. In the same year he passed the New York State bar exam and began his law career. During

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, Stinchfield served as a major in the Judge Advocate's Program. Stinchfield served as president of the ABA from 1936 to 1937. Stinchfield was most remembered for his ardent stance again

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, commonly referred to as "court packing". He wrote several editorial pieces on behalf of the Bar Association denouncing the bill, and used President

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's farewell address warning of encroachment on the federal system as a baseline for his arguments.

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