Background
Wehle, Louis Brandeis was born on September 13, 1880 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Son of Otto A. and Amy (Brandeis) Wehle.
Wehle, Louis Brandeis was born on September 13, 1880 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Son of Otto A. and Amy (Brandeis) Wehle.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1902, A.M., 1903, Bachelor of Laws, 1904.
Admitted to Kentucky bar, 1904. Practiced in state and federal courts, also before Interstate Commerce Commission, New York City, since 1921. Member legal committee General Munitions Board, also of legal committee War Industries Board, Council of National Defense, at Washington, District of Columbia, 1917.
Originator of plans adopted by United States Government to prevent strikes in building of cantonments and ships. Special assistant to secretary of war, 1917. Counsel of Cantonment Labor Adjustment Commission, June 1917.
Of counsel United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, August 1917-March 1919. Organizer and counsel Federal Shipbuilding Labor Adjustment Board, September 1917. General counsel War Finance Corporation, March 1919-November 1920.
Appointed by President Wilson member Federal Electric Rys. Commission, May 1919.
Member President’s White House Conference on Power Pooling, September 1936. Member American Committee at International Congress of Comparative Law and general reporter at The Hague, 1937. Head United States Foregin Economic Adminstrn’s. overseas mission to the Netherlands, and associated by State Department designation with United States Ambassador to the Netherlands (acting in Holland and in England, 1944-1945).
Member American Bar Association, American Law Institute, American Society International Law (executive council). Clubs: Cosmos (Washington).
Married Mary Gray Patterson Liddell, May 17, 1911. Children: Mark Liddell, Louis B., Mary Field.