page_title: John Minor Wisdom
section_title: Early life and education
hierarchical_section_title: John Minor Wisdom / Early life and education
caption_attribution_description: ..I’m a big Anne Rice fan, that’s why when i read somewhere that she started out in New Orleans and had a house here, i just had to take a snap of it.. so here it is 1239 first street, there was a remax sign in the gate though..
context_page_description: John Minor Wisdom, one of the "Fifth Circuit Four", and a Republican from Louisiana, was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit during the 1950s and 1960s, when that court became known for a series of crucial decisions that advanced the goals of the Civil Rights Movement. At that time, the Fifth Circuit included not only Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, but also Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and the Panama Canal Zone.
context_section_description: Wisdom was born on May 17, 1905, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and graduated from the Isidore Newman School. In 1925, he received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. In 1929, he received a Bachelor of Laws from Tulane University Law School, graduating first in his class.
  From 1947 to 1972 John Minor Wisdom lived at Brevard-Rice House, 1239 First Street, in New Orleans Garden District.
caption: Brevard-Rice House
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