Background
Morrissey, Thomas Leo was born on August 30, 1915 in Weehawken, New Jersey, United States. Son of Leo W. and Florence (Brown) Morrissey.
Morrissey, Thomas Leo was born on August 30, 1915 in Weehawken, New Jersey, United States. Son of Leo W. and Florence (Brown) Morrissey.
Bachelor, Rutgers University, 1937. Bachelor of Laws, Fordham University, 1940. Postgraduate, New York University Law School, 1954.
Member legal staff New York County district attorney Thomas E. Dewey, 1940. With firm Carpenter, Bennett & Morrissey, Newark, from 1947, member firm, from 1953.
Bar: New York bar 1940, New Jersey bar 1942, also Supreme Court of the United States Ct 1957.
Author: Odyssey of Fighting Two. Contributing author: The Developing Labor Law.
Trustee Brundage Charitable Found, Science and Wildlife Conservation Foundation, Upton Charitable Foundation Served to lieutenant Commander United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1946, 51-52, PTO, Korea. Fellow American Bar Foundation. Member International Bar Association (patron), American Bar Association, New Jersey Bar Association, Essex County Bar Association, American College Trial Lawyers, Tau Kappa Alpha.
Clubs: Essex (Newark). Morristown.
Married Doris J. Pier, January 17, 1948 (deceased). Children– Michael T., Eileen M., Steven A. Married Eleanor K. Felder, March 10, 1981.