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7 unusual facts about United States Solicitor General


1st Virginia Cavalry

Future U.S. Solicitor General Holmes Conrad enlisted in Company A at the beginning of the war.

Allan Ryan

In the U.S. Justice Department, he was Assistant to the Solicitor General and from 1980 to 1983 Director of the Office of Special Investigations, Criminal Division, responsible for the investigation and prosecution of Nazi war criminals in the United States.

Cedarburg High School

Paul Clement (born 1966), former United States Solicitor General, acted as Attorney General for one day, also led the effort by 26 states to overturn the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Charles Evans Hughes III

Hughes was the grandson of Chief Justice and 1916 Republican presidential nominee Charles Evans Hughes and the son of Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., who served as United States Solicitor General, 1929 and 1930 under President Herbert Hoover.

Fleeing felon rule

Samuel Alito's memo written while working in the Solicitor General's office regarding Memphis Police v. Garner which was the Sixth Circuit appellate case leading to Tennessee v. Garner.

Florida Solicitor General

It is a similar position to Solicitors in many states and is modeled after the United States Solicitor General.

Miguel Estrada

A bipartisan group of former Solicitors General wrote a letter objecting to the Democrats' demand for memos that Estrada had written while he was with the office.


1952 steel strike

Attending the meeting were Attorney-General James P. McGranery, who had been confirmed by the Senate on May 20; Solicitor General Philip Perlman; Secretary of Defense Robert A. Lovett; White House Counsel Charles S. Murphy; Press Secretary Joseph Short; Steelman and Sawyer.

ABC nations

At the conference, the United States was represented by Frederick William Lehmann, a former United States Solicitor General, and Joseph Rucker Lamar, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

John D. Lee

Former Solicitor General Rex E. Lee is a direct descendant of John Lee as are his sons Senator Mike Lee of Utah and Utah Supreme Court Justice Thomas R. Lee.

Niagara Falls peace conference

At the conference, the United States was represented by Frederick William Lehmann, a former United States Solicitor General; and Joseph Rucker Lamar, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, Inc.

Secretary Rumsfeld's position was represented before the Supreme Court by the Solicitor General, Paul Clement.

Selective Draft Law Cases

The Solicitor General's argument, and the court's opinion, were based primarily on Kneedler v. Lane, which was actually multiple opinions of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania during the American Civil War that upheld the Enrollment Act, and Vattel's The Law of Nations (1758).

United States v. Lara

Solicitor General Ted Olson argued that Congress, in response to the Duro decision, acted to "recognize and affirm" the Indian tribe's inherent power to enforce its criminal laws against Indians of other tribes.

Zadvydas v. Davis

Representing the United States was Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler.


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