William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr.

William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr. (born 1920 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was the nation's fourth United States Secretary of Transportation, from 7 March 1975 to 20 January 1977.

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1920 - Philadelphia - Pennsylvania - United States Secretary of Transportation - 7 March - 1975 - 20 January - 1977

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President Gerald Ford appointed Coleman, to serve as the nation's fourth secretary of transportation on March 7, 1975. Coleman attended local public schools, graduating summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania (1941) and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School (1946).

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President Gerald Ford - March 7 - Summa cum laude - University of Pennsylvania - 1941 - Magna cum laude - Harvard Law School - 1946

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He began his legal career in 1947, serving as law clerk to Judge Herbert F. Goodrich of the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and clerk to Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter (1948). Coleman was one of the lead strategists and coauthor of the legal brief in Brown v. Topeka, Board of Education (1954) in which the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools.

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1947 - Herbert F. Goodrich - Court of Appeals - Third Circuit - Supreme Court Justice - Felix Frankfurter - 1948 - Brown v. Topeka - 1954 - Supreme Court - Segregation

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He served as a member of the NAACP's national legal committee, director and member of its executive committee, and president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Coleman was also a member of President Eisenhower's Committee on Government Employment Policy (1959-1961), a senior consultant and assistant counsel to the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy (1964), and a consultant to the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1963-1975).

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NAACP - President Eisenhower - 1959 - 1961 - Assassination of President Kennedy - 1964 - U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency - 1963

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In 1969, he was a member of the U.S. delegation to the twenty-fourth session of the United Nations General Assembly. Coleman was also a memeber of the National Commission on Productivity (1971-1972). He was senior partner in the law firm of Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish, Levy & Coleman at the time of his appointment to the Ford administration.

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1969 - United Nations - National Commission on Productivity

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