Background
Washington, George Thomas was born on June 24, 1908 in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, United States. Son of William Morrow and Janet Margaret (Thomas) Washington.
Washington, George Thomas was born on June 24, 1908 in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, United States. Son of William Morrow and Janet Margaret (Thomas) Washington.
Bachelor of Philosophy, Yale College, 1928. Bachelor of Letters, (Law), University of Oxford, 1931. Bachelor of Laws, Yale Law School, 1932.
Practiced law, New York City, 1932-1938. Member of faculty Cornell Univercity Law School, 1938-1942, professor of law, 1942. Attorney Office Emergency Management 1942.
United States economics representative, Baghdad, Iraq, 1942-1943.
Chief United States Lend-Lease Mission, Teheran, Iran, 1943-1944. Special assistant to the United States Attorney General November 1944-1946.
Assistant solicitor general of the United States, 1946-1949. Acting solicitor general of the United States, 1946-1947, charge government cases Supreme Court of the United States Court.
Legal adviser United States delegation to United Nations Conference on Freedom of the Press, Geneva, 1948.
Appointed judge The United States of America Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit, October 1949, then senior United States circuit judge.
Member Association American Rhodes Scholars, Society of the Cincinnati (as representative of President Washington by descent from Colonel Samuel Washington), Supreme Court of the United States Court Bar, District of Columbia, San Francisco bar associations, Association Bar City of New York, Order of Coif, Phi Beta Kappa. Club: Elizabethan (New Haven).
Married Helen Goodner, 1953.