Thomas Reed Powell (April 29, 1880 – August 16, 1955) was an American legal scholar and political scientist who taught at

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for twenty-five years. He was educated at the

University of Vermont The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, commonly referred to as the University of Vermont (UVM), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Burlington, Vermont, United States. Foun ...

, Harvard Law School, and

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. He was a professor at Harvard Law School from 1925 until retiring in 1949, at which point he became an emeritus professor there. He subsequently taught at

Suffolk University Suffolk University is a private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. With 7,560 students on all campuses, it is the List of colleges and universities in metropolitan Boston, tenth-largest university ...

from 1950 to 1955. He was elected to the

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in 1931 and served as president of the

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in 1937. After his death in 1955, obituaries were published for him in the ''

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'', authored by

Erwin N. Griswold Erwin Nathaniel Griswold (; 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) unde ...

Felix Frankfurter Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1939 until 1962, advocating judicial restraint. Born in Vienna, Frankfurter im ...

, Paul A. Freund, and Henry M. Hart, Jr.

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