Louis Marshall
Louis Marshall was an American corporate, constitutional and civil rights lawyer as well as a mediator and Jewish community leader who worked to secure religious, political, and cultural freedom for all minority groups. Among the founders of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), he defended Jewish and minority rights. He was also a conservationist, and the force behind re-establishing the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, which evolved into today's State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF).
14 December 1856
Born on the same birth day (14 December): Ben Henry • Capel Bond • Didier Zokora • Ellen Willis • Justus Möser • Karl Carstens • Katherine MacDonald • Koos Rietkerk • Manolis Kalomiris • Michael Owen • Morey Amsterdam • Rosalyn Tureck • Shedrack Kibet Korir
Born in the same month (December 1856): Frank B. Kellogg • George Leake • Georgi Plekhanov • J. J. Thomson • Pud Galvin • Svetozar Boroević • Thomas Joannes Stieltjes • Woodrow Wilson