Quick Facts

• NAME: Felix Frankfurter
• OCCUPATION: Educator, Scholar, Supreme Court Justice
• BIRTH DATE: November 15, 1882
• DEATH DATE: February 22, 1965
• EDUCATION: City College of New York, Harvard Law School
• PLACE OF BIRTH: Vienna, Austria
• PLACE OF DEATH: Washington, D.C., D.C.

Best Known For

Associate Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter was a noted law scholar, who was the high court's leading exponent of the doctrine of judicial self-restraint.