page_title: Thomas Elliott (lawyer)
section_title: Frankfurter's "happy hot dogs"
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Elliott (lawyer) / Frankfurter's "happy hot dogs"
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter of the United States Supreme Court.
context_page_description: Thomas Elliott, AKA Tom Elliott, was a 20th-Century American lawyer who served as first general counsel to the Social Security Administration and was known as one of the Felix Frankfurter's "hot dogs," part of FDR's New Deal Brain Trust.
context_section_description: On December 2, 1935, Elliott's name appears in the press as one of "50 or 60 members of the Roosevelt brain trust," former students of Professor Felix Frankfurter, then dean of Harvard Law School, placed by Frankfurter into "key positions in the Roosevelt administration," and known as Frankfurter's "happy hot dogs." According to journalist Arthur Sears Henning:
  Some of the "better known" of Frankfurter's "happy hot dogs" in 1935 were:
  Dean Acheson, Undersecretary of the Treasury
  Thomas Corcoran, legal staff member of the Public Works Administration
  James M. Landis, head of the Securities and Exchange Commission
  Alger Hiss, "right hand man" of Solicitor General Stanley Reed, U.S. Department of Justice
  Paul Freund, also legal staff member of the U.S. Department of Justice
  Other "Frankfurter men" in the New Deal included:
  Benjamin V. Cohen legal staff member of the Public Works Administration
  Jerome Frank, counsel to Reconstruction Finance Corporation, former general counsel of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration
  Charles Wyzanski, solicitor of the U.S. Department of Labor
  Thomas Elliott, general counsel for the new social security organization
  Gardner Jackson, formerly assistant consumers' counsel of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration
caption: Felix Frankfurter as Supreme Court judge
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