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33 Notre Dame Law. 321 (1957-1958)
Mr. Justice Brennan and His Legal Philosophy

handle is hein.journals/tndl33 and id is 325 raw text is: NOTRE DAME LAWYER A Quarterly Law Review VOL. 'XXXm MAY, 1958 No. 3 MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN AND HIS, LEGAL PHILOSOPHY Francis P. McQuade and Alexander T. Kardos* On September 29, 1956, William Joseph Brennan, Junior, associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme- Court, received an apparently casual telephone call from .Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Jr., inviting him to come to Washington, D.C., the following day. The reason for. the invitation was not disclosed at that time. The next day, -a rather surprised Mr. Brennan was. informed that he was President Eisenhower's choice to be Associ- ate Justice of the United States Supreme Court; His acceptance was immediate, and he took his oath of office on October 16, 1956. I. THE EARLY YEARS William J. Brennan, Jr., was born in Newark, New Jersey, on April 25, 1906, one of eight children of Irish-Catholic immi- grants. His father had come from Country Roscommon, Ireland, as a youth of twenty in 1893, and had worked as a coal shoveler, in a brewery and as a metal polisher. Early in his life, the senior Brennan came into contact with the rapidly growing organized labor movement and regarded it with a sincere sympathy which @ 1958 University of Notre Dame Press. * Francis P. McQuade, Ph.D., LL.B., member of the New York bar, is assis- tant professor of philosophy in Fordham University School of Education and visiting lecturer in law at Seton Hall University School of Law. Alexander T. Kardos, member of the DIC. bar, -is in the general counsel's office of Johnson & Johnson and a candidate for the LLB. Degree in June 1958 at Seton Hall University School of Law. (321)

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