Background
Thacher, Thomas Day was born on September 10, 1881 in Tenafly, New Jersey, United States. Son of Thomas and Sarah McCullough (Green) Thacher.
Solicitor General of the United States
Thacher, Thomas Day was born on September 10, 1881 in Tenafly, New Jersey, United States. Son of Thomas and Sarah McCullough (Green) Thacher.
Prep education, Taft School, Watertown, Connecticut, and Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1904, Doctor of Laws, Yale, 1930. University of Wisconsin, 1935.
New York University, 1944, Harvard, 1944. Columbia, 1945; student law department, Yale, 2 years.
Admitted to New York bar, 1906, and began practice at New York City. Assistant United State Attorneys Southern District of New York, 1907-1908. Associate, later partner firm Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, of which father was member until his death, 1919.
Judge The United States of America District Court. Southern District of New York, by appointment of President Coolidge, 1925-1930. Solicitor general of the United States, 1930-1933.
Partner Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, 1933-1943. Corporation consul of the City of New York, 1943. Judge New York State Court of Appeals, 1943-1948, retired.
Partner flim of Simpson, Thacher & Bartle.
Served as major American Red Cross in Russia, 1917-1918. Chairman New York City Charter Revision Commission. Clubs: Union, Century, Links, University, Yale (New York).
Married Eunice Booth Burrall, November 9, 1907 (died January 19, 1943).; married second, Eleanor M. Lloyd, July 20, 1945. Children: Sarah Booth (Mistress George L. Storm), Mary Eunice (Mistress Daniel N. Brown), Thomas.