(1886-1968) World War II Attorney General in the Roosevelt Administration (1941-45) and Judge at the Nuremberg Trials. Biddle received his law degree from Harvard and then was private secretary to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. After a long legal career in Philadelphia, FDR appointed him to a series of important posts. He served as Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board (1935-39), Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals (1939-40), Solicitor General (1940-41) and finally as Attorney General (1941-45). Biddle dealt with the issues arising from the war but is best remembered for overseeing the internment of 120,000 Japanese-Americans, an action that the government later apologized for and indemnified those who had been incarcerated. This action is probably the most controversial and historically disreputable action of FDR's presidency. Biddle also charged a number of prominent American Neo-Nazis on trial for Treason, but lost the case. Upon Truman succeeding to the Presidency, he asked Biddle to resign but soon appointed him as chief of the two American Judges at the Nuremberg Trial.. Fine Dark Fountain Pen Sig.. on verso of a post card, "Sincerely, Francis Biddle ¿ 19 March ¿ 1953"

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