Thurman Arnold

Thurman Wesley Arnold was an American lawyer best known for his trust-busting campaign as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Department of Justice from 1938 to 1943. He later served as a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Before coming to Washington in 1938, Arnold was the mayor of Laramie, Wyoming and a professor at Yale Law School, where he took part in the legal realism movement and published two books: The Symbols of Government (1935) and The Folklore of Capitalism (1937). He also published The Bottlenecks of Business (1940).

2 June 1891

Born on the same birth date (2 June 1891): Takijirō Ōnishi

Born on the same birth day (2 June): Adam Taggart • Cornel West • Crescenzio Sepe • Erzsi Kovács • Jerry Lumpe • John Randolph of Roanoke • Matthew Koma • Milo O'Shea • Nikolay Davydenko • Sandy Wylie, Lord Kinclaven

Born in the same month (June 1891): Al Dubin • Carl Spaatz • Cole Porter • Ed Lewis (wrestler) • Erich Marcks • Esther Forbes • Franz Alexander • Giannina Arangi-Lombardi • Hermann Scherchen • John A. Costello • John Heartfield • Man Mountain Dean • Masti Venkatesha Iyengar • Pier Luigi Nervi • Stanley Spencer • Takijirō Ōnishi • William Funnell (public servant)