Theodore Tannenwald Jr. (1916 – January 17, 1999)

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, "In Memoriam: Theodore Tannenwald, Jr.", ''The Tax Lawyer'', Vol. 52, No. 2 (Winter 1999), p. 231-233. was a judge of the

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from 1965 to 1983.''Official Congressional Directory'' (1999), p. 869. Born in

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, Tannenwald received an

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, summa cum laude in political science and mathematics, from Brown University 1936, A.B., and an

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, magna cum laude, from

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in 1939, where he was awarded a Fay Diploma for having the highest 3-year average in his class, and was a note editor on the ''

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''. He gained

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in New York the same year, and worked for the law firm of

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in New York from 1939 to 1942, when he took leave from the firm to hold a series of government positions. He was Principal Assistant, Lend-Lease Administration, and Acting Assistant Chief, Foreign Funds Control Division, Department of State, 1942 to 1943, and Special Consultant to the Secretary of War, 1943 to 1945. He formally returned to the law firm in 1947, but also served as a consultant to Secretary of Defense

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from 1946 to 1949, and Counsel to the Special Assistant to President Truman,

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from 1950 to 1951. He again took leave from the firm to serve as Assistant Director for Mutual Security from 1951 to 1953. He then returned to Weil, Gotshal & Manges until 1965. He was also a member of President Kennedy's Task Force on Foreign Assistance and Special Assistant to the Secretary of State in 1961. In 1965, President

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appointed Tannenwald to a seat on the United States Tax Court for term expiring June 1, 1974, to succeed Judge

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, deceased. Tannenwald was then reappointed by President

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for a 15-year term expiring June 1, 1989, but retired June 30, 1983. He was also a professional lecturer at the

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from 1968 to 1976, and at the

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in 1976. He married Selma Peterfreund, with whom he had two sons, Peter and Robert.

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1916 births 1999 deaths People from Columbia County, New York Brown University alumni Harvard Law School alumni George Washington University Law School faculty Judges of the United States Tax Court United States Article I federal judges appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson United States Article I federal judges appointed by Richard Nixon {{US-federal-judge-stub