predecessor successor birth_name birth_place death_date death_place imagesize occupation nationality office birth_date term_start image article_title term_end name nominator alma_mater
wiley b. rutledge bennett champ clark thurman wesley arnold laramie , wyoming 7 november 1969 alexandria , virginia 200px lawyer united states court judge of appeals for the d. c. circuit associate 2 june 1891 march 18 , 1943 thurman arnold.jpg thurman arnold
 july 9 , 1945 thurman arnold franklin d. roosevelt princeton university harvard law school
thurman arnold

thurman wesley arnold -lrb- june 2 , 1891 -- november 7 , 1969 -rrb- was an iconoclastic washington , d.c. lawyer .
he was best known for his trust-busting campaign as assistant attorney general in charge of the antitrust division in franklin delano roosevelt 's department of justice from 1938 to 1943 .
before coming to washington in 1938 , arnold was the mayor of laramie , wyoming , and then a professor at yale law school , where he took part in the legal realism movement , and published two books : `` the symbols of government '' -lrb- 1935 -rrb- and `` the folklore of capitalism '' -lrb- 1937 -rrb- .
a few years later , he published `` the bottlenecks of business '' -lrb- 1940 -rrb- .
