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'@@ -5,12 +5,15 @@ <!-- End of AfD message, feel free to edit beyond this point --> {{inline|date=January 2013}} -'''Lauson Harvey Stone''' (1904 in Manhattan &ndash; November 7, 1999 in Brooklyn), son of [[Chief Justice of the United States| -US Chief Justice]] [[Harlan Stone]], was an American [[lawyer]] and civic leader. +'''Lauson Harvey Stone''' (1904 in Manhattan &ndash; November 7, 1999 in Brooklyn), son of [[Chief Justice of the United States|US Chief Justice]] [[Harlan Stone]], was an American [[lawyer]] and civic leader. -Stone received a bachelor's degree in 1925 from [[Harvard University]] and a law degree in 1928 from [[Columbia University]]. he died at age 95 in Brooklyn +Stone received a bachelor's degree in 1925 from [[Harvard University]] and a law degree in 1928 from [[Columbia University]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=1938-07-20 |title=Justice Stone's Son Gets School Post: Lawyer to Fill Vacancy on Board of Higher Education |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1938/07/20/archives/justice-stones-son-gets-school-post-lawyer-to-fill-vacancy-on-board.html}}</ref> He became a corporate laywer with [[Sullivan & Cromwell]], but found work at the large firm stifling, and left for a smaller practice.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Weidlich |first=Thom |url=http://archive.org/details/appointmentdenie00weid |title=Appointment Denied: The Inquisition of Betrand Russell |date=2000 |publisher=Prometheus Books |others= |isbn=978-1-57392-788-8 |pages=155}}</ref> He resided in Brooklyn, where he was a trustee of the [[Brooklyn Public Library|public library]] and of the Long Island College of Medicine.<ref name=":0" /> + +In 1938 he was appointed by New York City Mayor [[Fiorello La Guardia]] to the [[Board of Higher Education of the City of New York|Board of Higher Education]], replacing Arthur M. Howe.<ref name=":0" /> La Guardia reappointed him for a second term, of nine years, in 1940.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1940-07-04 |title=Stays on College Board: L.H. Stone Reappointed for 9 Years by the Mayor |pages=15 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/07/04/archives/stays-on-college-board-lh-stone-reappointed-for-9-years-by-the.html}}</ref> By the following year, he was chairman of the conduct committee for the Board, and was elected chairman of the administrative committee of [[Brooklyn College]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=1941-05-07 |title=Heads Administrators For Brooklyn College |pages=52 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/05/07/archives/heads-administrators-for-brooklyn-college.html |access-date=}}</ref> His Board of Higher Education duties included leading the investigation for the [[Rapp-Coudert Committee]] into the extent of communist influence within the public schools.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1941-05-07 |title=Stone Assumes Lombardo Post at Boro College |pages=3 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/118201567/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle/ |access-date=2023-02-08}}</ref> + +He resigned his Board of Higher Education position in 1942 to enter the [[United States Army|Army]] as a [[major]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=1942-06-23 |title=Orrin G. Judd Begins School Board Duties |pages=2 |work=The Brooklyn Citizen |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/118203873/orrin-g-judd-begins-school-board-duties/ |access-date=2023-02-08}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Corby |first=Jane |date=1948-04-18 |title=When Mr. Stone's on Job, Things Start to Happen |pages=27 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/118198814/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle/ |access-date=2023-02-08}}</ref> Later that year, he was assigned by the [[U.S. War Department]] to be a defense lawyer for eight Nazi saboteurs involved in [[Operation Pastorius]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/12/us/l-h-stone-94-defender-of-8-in-42-trial-for-sabotage.html|access-date=2022-01-02|date=1999-11-12|work=The New York Times|title=L. H. Stone, 94, Defender of 8 In '42 Trial For Sabotage|first=Eric|last=Pace}}</ref> [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|President Roosevelt]] had directed that the saboteurs be tried via a military tribunal; Lauson's designated role for the defense was to research whether this was constitutionally permissible.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Feldman |first=Noah |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gq-pOED4TSUC&newbks=0 |title=Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices |date=2010-11-08 |publisher=Hachette+ORM |isbn=978-0-446-57514-0 |language=en}}</ref> Lauson believed there was a strong possibility that a military trial was unconstitutional, and therefore the defense sought a Supreme Court order declaring as much.<ref name=":2" /> With the matter set to come before the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]], there was a question as to whether Lauson's father, Chief Justice Harlan Stone, would recuse himself from the case due to his son's involvement with the defense.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1942-07-29 |title=Stone and Murphy May Refuse to Hear Appeals From Saboteurs |pages=11 |work=The Daily Oklahoman |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/118201283/the-daily-oklahoman/ |access-date=2023-02-08}}</ref> Harlan did offer to do so, but his recusal was declined by Attorney General [[Francis Biddle]], ostensibly because Lauson's involvement had been limited to the military tribunal, and he had been excused from the matters that were coming before before the Supreme Court.<ref>{{Cite book |last=O'Donnell |first=Pierce |url=http://archive.org/details/intimeofwarhitle00odon |title=In Time of War: Hitler's Terrorist Attack on America |date=2005 |publisher=New York : New Press ; Distributed by W.W. Norton |others= |isbn=978-1-56584-958-7 |pages=213–214}}</ref> Legal scholars have questioned this distinction, citing it as one example among many potential conflicts of interest produced by the case's unique circumstances.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Moller |first=Mark K. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EWSQAAAAQBAJ&newbks=0 |title=Cato Supreme Court Review, 2003-2004 |date=2004-10-25 |publisher=Cato Institute |isbn=978-1-935308-43-0 |pages=82 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Meeker |first=Leonard C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UVaLAAAAQBAJ&newbks=0 |title=Experiences |date=2007-06-04 |publisher=Xlibris Corporation |isbn=978-1-4691-2319-6 |language=en}}</ref> + +In 1944, at age 41, Lauson was promoted to the rank of colonel,<ref>{{Cite news |date=1944-09-26 |title=Two Are Made Colonels; Fourteen Majors From This Area Also Promoted |pages=36 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1944/09/26/archives/two-are-made-colonels-fourteen-majors-from-this-area-also-promoted.html}}</ref> and he was later discharged at that rank, after being awarded the [[Legion of Merit Medal]].<ref name=":1" /> He died at age 95 in Brooklyn. -In 1942, he was assigned by the [[U.S. War Department]] to be a [[defense lawyer]] for eight [[Nazi]] [[saboteurs]] involved in [[Operation Pastorius]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/12/us/l-h-stone-94-defender-of-8-in-42-trial-for-sabotage.html|access-date=2022-01-02|date=1999-11-12|work=The New York Times|title=L. H. Stone, 94, Defender of 8 In '42 Trial For Sabotage|first=Eric|last=Pace}}</ref> ==External links== -*[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E4DF163DF931A25752C1A96F958260 New York Times obituary] * [https://www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/speeches/sp_06-14-02.html The Use of Military Tribunals, D.C. Circuit Judicial Conference, Remarks of the Chief Justice, June 14, 2002] '