Background
Dowling, Noel Thomas was born on August 14, 1885 in Ozark, Alabama, United States. Son of Angus and Laura Lavinia (Boswell) Dowling.
Dowling, Noel Thomas was born on August 14, 1885 in Ozark, Alabama, United States. Son of Angus and Laura Lavinia (Boswell) Dowling.
Bachelor of Arts, Vanderbilt University, 1909. Master of Arts, Columbia, 1911, Bachelor of Laws, 1912, Doctor of Laws, 1954.
June 1972). Assistant, Legislative Drafting Research Fund, Columbia, 1912-1914, 16-17. Professor of law University of Minnesota, 1919-1922. Associate professor of law Columbia, 1922-1924, professor of law, 1924-1930, Nash professor of law, 1930-1946, Harlan Fiske Stone professor constitutional law, 1946-1954, emeritus, 1954-1969.
Acting professor of law Stanford, 1925.
Visiting professor law University of Virginia, 1940. Special assistant legislative counsel United States Senate, 1921, 27.
Associate director Bureau War Risk Insurance (now Virginia), commissioner military and naval insurance, 1918-1919. Member secretary navy commission to prepare report on organization, methods and procedures of naval courts, 1943, member board, 1945.
Chairman New York Mayor’s factfinding board, city bus strike, 1941.
Vice president Riverside Church, New York City, 1941-1945, president, 1945-1946, honorary trustee 1959-1969. Trustee, vice chairman National Child Labor Committee.
Served as major, judge advisory general United States Army, World War I. Member Academy Political Science (trustee, secretary 1936-1946), American University Union (director British division 1928-1929), American Bar Association, Association Bar City New York, American Law Institute, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Alpha Epsilon (member supreme council, editor The Record 1918-1920). Club: Century (New York City).
Married Elizabeth Brown Molloy, June 19, 1918. Children: Janet Cameron Brown, Elizabeth Molloy (deceased June 1972).