# Bailey Aldrich > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Bailey_Aldrich > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Bailey_Aldrich.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey_Aldrich > Source revision: 1349787652 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American judge}} {{Distinguish|Aldrich Bailey}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Bailey Aldrich | honorific_suffix = | image = Judge Bailey Aldrich.jpg | alt = | caption = | office = [Senior Judge](/source/Senior_status) of the [United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit](/source/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_First_Circuit) | term_start = August 31, 1972 | term_end = September 25, 2002 | office1 = Chief Judge of the [United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit](/source/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_First_Circuit) | term_start1 = 1965 | term_end1 = 1972 | predecessor1 = [Peter Woodbury](/source/Peter_Woodbury) | successor1 = [Frank M. Coffin](/source/Frank_M._Coffin) | office2 = Judge of the [United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit](/source/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_First_Circuit) | term_start2 = September 10, 1959 | term_end2 = August 31, 1972 | nominator2 = | appointer2 = [Dwight D. Eisenhower](/source/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Dwight_D._Eisenhower) | predecessor2 = [Calvert Magruder](/source/Calvert_Magruder) | successor2 = [Levin H. Campbell](/source/Levin_H._Campbell) | office3 = Judge of the [United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts](/source/United_States_District_Court_for_the_District_of_Massachusetts) | term_start3 = April 27, 1954 | term_end3 = September 14, 1959 | nominator3 = | appointer3 = [Dwight D. Eisenhower](/source/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Dwight_D._Eisenhower) | predecessor3 = ''Seat established by 68 Stat. 8'' | successor3 = [Anthony Julian](/source/Anthony_Julian) | pronunciation = | birth_name = Bailey Aldrich | birth_date = {{Birth date|1907|4|23}} | birth_place = [Boston](/source/Boston), [Massachusetts](/source/Massachusetts), U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2002|9|25|1907|4|23}} | death_place = [Cambridge, Massachusetts](/source/Cambridge%2C_Massachusetts), U.S. | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | citizenship = | party = | other_party = | height = | spouse = | partner = | relations = | children = | parents = | mother = | father = | relatives = | education = [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University) ([AB](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts), [LLB](/source/Bachelor_of_Laws)) | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | known_for = | salary = | net_worth = | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Bailey Aldrich''' (April 23, 1907 – September 25, 2002) was a [United States circuit judge](/source/United_States_federal_judge) of the [United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit](/source/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_First_Circuit) and previously was a United States District Judge of the [United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts](/source/United_States_District_Court_for_the_District_of_Massachusetts). ==Education and career== A native of [Boston](/source/Boston), [Massachusetts](/source/Massachusetts), Aldrich graduated from [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University) with an [Artium Baccalaureus](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) degree in 1928 and [Harvard Law School](/source/Harvard_Law_School) with a [Bachelor of Laws](/source/Bachelor_of_Laws) in 1932.{{cite news|title=Bailey Aldrich, 95, Long-Serving Judge|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/30/us/bailey-aldrich-95-long-serving-judge.html|access-date=February 27, 2018|work=New York Times|agency=Associated Press|date=September 30, 2002}} He was elected a Fellow of the [American Academy of Arts and Sciences](/source/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences) in 1954.{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=14 April 2011| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110510021801/http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf| archivedate= 10 May 2011 | url-status= live}} Aldrich was in private practice in Boston from 1932 to 1954.{{FJC Bio|23|nid=1377086|name=Bailey Aldrich}} ==Federal judicial service== Aldrich was nominated by President [Dwight D. Eisenhower](/source/Dwight_D._Eisenhower) on April 1, 1954, to the [United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts](/source/United_States_District_Court_for_the_District_of_Massachusetts), to a new seat authorized by 68 Stat. 8. He was confirmed by the [United States Senate](/source/United_States_Senate) on April 23, 1954, and received his commission on April 27, 1954. His service terminated on September 14, 1959, due to his elevation to the First Circuit. Aldrich was nominated by President Eisenhower on February 26, 1959, to a seat on the [United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit](/source/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_First_Circuit) vacated by Judge [Calvert Magruder](/source/Calvert_Magruder). He was confirmed by the Senate on September 9, 1959, and received his commission the next day. He served as Chief Judge and as a member of the [Judicial Conference of the United States](/source/Judicial_Conference_of_the_United_States) from 1965 to 1972. He assumed [senior status](/source/senior_status) on August 31, 1972. His service terminated on September 25, 2002, due to his death in [Cambridge](/source/Cambridge%2C_Massachusetts), Massachusetts.{{cite news|title=Retired 1st Circuit Judge Aldrich Dies|url=http://masslawyersweekly.com/2002/10/14/retired-1st-circuit-judge-aldrich-dies/|access-date=February 27, 2018|work=Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly|date=October 14, 2002}} ===Conflict with Senator McCarthy=== According to [Ted Morgan](/source/Ted_Morgan_(writer)) in ''Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America'', Judge Aldrich drew the ire of Senator [Joseph McCarthy](/source/Joseph_McCarthy) in 1955, when Aldrich dismissed contempt of Congress charges against [Leon J. Kamin](/source/Leon_J._Kamin). In February 1956, McCarthy wrote to complain to President [Eisenhower](/source/Dwight_D._Eisenhower), accusing Judge Aldrich of harboring sympathy toward Communists. He had learned from the ''[New Bedford Standard-Times](/source/New_Bedford_Standard-Times)'' that Aldrich had initially refused, on principle, to sign a non-Communist affidavit card upon his appointment as a trustee to the [Massachusetts Memorial Hospital](/source/Memorial_Hospital_(Worcester)). Massachusetts Governor [Christian Herter](/source/Christian_Herter) had nominated him for the trusteeship on August 2, 1955, two months before the Kamin trial. According to Morgan, the judge wrote that he "would rather forgo the post on the hospital board than sign the card." He finally did sign the card on September 13, "after being told that failure to comply would cause great embarrassment to the Herter administration," but McCarthy was not satisfied by the news that Aldrich had eventually complied. President Eisenhower ignored McCarthy's complaint.{{cite book |title=Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America |last=Morgan |first=Ted |year=2003 |publisher=Random House |pages=[https://archive.org/details/redsmccarthyismi00morg_0/page/507 507] |isbn=978-0679443995 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/redsmccarthyismi00morg_0 }} ==Personal== Aldrich married Elizabeth Perkins, who had studied at the [Buckingham School](/source/Buckingham_School) and [Bryn Mawr College](/source/Bryn_Mawr_College). Elizabeth was an editor. American philosopher [Ralph Barton Perry](/source/Ralph_Barton_Perry) credits Elizabeth Perkins Aldrich as a de facto co-author of his [Pulitzer Prize](/source/Pulitzer_Prize)-winning biography ''The Thought and Character of [William James](/source/William_James)''.{{cite book|pages=viii |authorlink=Ralph Barton Perry|first=Ralph B.|last=Perry|title=The Thought and Character of William James|publisher=[Little, Brown and Company](/source/Little%2C_Brown_and_Company)|date=1935}} Bailey and Elizabeth Aldrich had two sons: David and the poet [Jonathan Aldrich](/source/Jonathan_Aldrich).{{cite news|title=Obituary: THE HONORABLE JUDGE BAILEY ALDRICH|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=bailey-aldrich&pid=512335|access-date=February 27, 2018|work=Boston Globe|publisher=legacy.com|date=September 23, 2002}}{{cite web|title=Cambridge Women's Heritage Project|url=http://www2.cambridgema.gov/historic/cwhp/bios_a.html#AldrichEP|publisher=City of Cambridge, Massachusetts|access-date=February 27, 2018|archive-date=August 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190827150501/https://www2.cambridgema.gov/historic/cwhp/bios_a.html#AldrichEP|url-status=dead}} Aldrich was the grandson of 19th century author [Thomas Bailey Aldrich](/source/Thomas_Bailey_Aldrich).[cite web|url=http://pressherald.com/2021/01/10/obituaryjonathan-aldrich/ |title=Obituary: Jonathan Aldrich |accessdate=2021-06-04] ==Bibliography== * Cohen, Kenneth A. "Bailey Aldrich and the Modern First Circuit: Old Virtues and New Civil Liberties." ''Massachusetts Law Review'' 74 (December 1989): 247-55. ==See also== * [List of United States federal judges by longevity of service](/source/List_of_United_States_federal_judges_by_longevity_of_service) ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * {{FJC Bio|23|nid=1377086|name=Bailey Aldrich}} {{s-start}} {{s-legal}} {{s-bef|before=Seat established by 68 Stat. 8}} {{s-ttl|title={{nowrap|Judge of the [United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts](/source/United_States_District_Court_for_the_District_of_Massachusetts)}}|years=1954–1959}} {{s-aft|after=[Anthony Julian](/source/Anthony_Julian)}} {{s-bef|before=[Calvert Magruder](/source/Calvert_Magruder)}} {{s-ttl|title={{nowrap|Judge of the [United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit](/source/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_First_Circuit)}}|years=1959–1972}} {{s-aft|after=[Levin H. 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