The Friendship of Holmes and Brandeis
A member of a famous Philadelphia clan and a graduate of the Harvard Law School, Francis Biddle served as a law clerk to Mr. Justice Holmes between 1911 and 1912, long before he moved into national prominence as the Attorney General of the United States (1941-1945). As a young man and in his maturity, he was well placed to observe the friendship between those two great judges Brandeis and Holmes.