"Solicitor General" Philip Perlman Signed TLS Dated 1951 For Sale
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"Solicitor General" Philip Perlman Signed TLS Dated 1951:
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Up for sale "Solicitor General" Philip Perlman Hand Signed TLS Dated 1951.
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Philip B. Perlman (March 5,
1890, Baltimore – July 31, 1960) was a Baltimore native, the
son of Benjamin and Rose Nathan Perlman. Graduating from Baltimore City College secondary
school in 1908, Perlman worked as a reporter for the Baltimore American while
studying political economy at Johns Hopkins University.
He studied law at the University
of Maryland School of Law, being admitted to the bar one year prior
to receiving a law degree in 1912. He began working for The Evening Sun in 1910, first as a court reporter,
and then as City Editor from 1913–1917. It was probably at this time that he
got to know H. L. Mencken. Leaving
newspaper work in 1917, Perlman began many years of public service,
interspersed with private law practice. Initially he worked under then Attorney General of
Maryland, Albert C. Ritchie, as an assistant in the State Law
Department, then became Assistant Maryland Attorney General in 1918. With Ritchie's
election to the Maryland governorship in 1919, he appointed Perlman Secretary of State.
Legislation drafted by Perlman included the bill providing for women's voting.
In the 1920s, Perlman was City Solicitor of Baltimore and established a private
law practice; in the 1930s he served on a commission to revise city zoning laws
and on the first Maryland Water Resources Commission; in the 1940s he advised
Governor William Preston Lane, Jr. on
issues such as the Chesapeake Bay Bridge construction
and highway improvement. In Perlman's private law practice, he was noted
for civil rights cases. Moving
to the level of national politics, Perlman became the first Jewish U.S. Solicitor General,
serving from 1947–1952 under President Harry S. Truman, where he chaired Truman's Commission on
Immigration and Naturalization, and was noted for helping to write the 1948 and
1960 platforms for the Democratic National Convention. At the time of his
death, Perlman maintained a law practice with the firm Perlman, Lyons and
Emmerglick in Washington, D.C., was president of the board of trustees of the Walters Art Gallery in
Baltimore, and a member of the Maryland Historical
Society. He was also a member of the National Press Club and
the Associated Jewish Charities. A bachelor, he had a home on Park Heights Avenue in
Baltimore, and a suite at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C.
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