Education
Fordham University; Fordham University School of Law.
Fordham University; Fordham University School of Law.
Scannell was born in the Bronx, New York to Daniel T. (d 1939) and Eleanor (née Walsh) Scannell. He attended Fordham University, earning an undergraduate degree in accounting in 1935, and earned a law degree from Fordham University School of Law in 1940.