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He was born on November 25, 1901 in Tennessee. He married Fanny Richards Leake, daughter of Charles Richards Leake.
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Fyke Farmer
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They had a daughter, Dorothy Leake Farmer. Farmer argued that the Rosenbergs were tried under the wrong law, claiming that the Atomic Energy Acting, under which a sentence of death can be imposed only upon recommendation of a jury, should have been applied rather than the Espionage Acting of 1917, which leaves that power exclusively to the discretion of the court. On the basis of Farmer"s arguments, a temporary stay was granted to the Rosenbergs by Justice William O. Douglas on 17 June 1953.
The United States Supreme Court vacated Douglas"s stay by a vote of 6-3.
The Rosenbergs were executed on 19 June 1953. In 1990, Farmer filed "United States ex relations
Farmer v. Kaufman" against Irving R. Kaufman, the judge who presided over the Rosenbergs" trial.
His papers are archived at the Library of Congress.
