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Thomas Day Thacher (S&B 1904)

Director Commonwealth Fund [Wolf’s Head], William Boyce Thompson Institute, and Legal Aid Society of New York, trustee Taft School and New York Public Library, fellow Morgan Library.[4]

Member New York Law Institute, New York County Lawyers Association, American Society of International Law, New York State and American Bar associations, Foreign Bond holders Protective Council, New England Society, and Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City.[4]

20 Jul 1945 - Married Philadelphia, Eleanor Morris Lloyd,, daughter of Eflingham Buckley and Ellen Douglas (Burroughs) Morns. Death due to coronary thrombosis Buried in Brookside Cemetery, Englewood,NJ. Survived by wife, children, eight grandchildren, three stepchildren, Mrs Edward Browning, Jr, Morns Lloyd, and Stacy N. Lloyd, and three sisters, Mrs Martin L Richmond, Mrs Theodore Dnggs,and Mrs T Guthnc Speers.[4]

1945 - Columbia.[4]
WW2 - 1944 - Harvard, New York University.[4]

WW2 - 1943 until resignation 1948 - Associate Judge Court of Appeals of the State of New York.[4]

WW2 - 1943 - Corporation Counsel New York City.[4]
WW2 - 1942 to 1943 - Vice President Lawyers Club.[4]

1939 to 1940 - Andover General Alumni Association.[4]
1936 - Awarded Boys Association Gold Medal (New York City) for outstanding and unselfish service.[4]
1935 to 1936 - Chairman New York City Charter Revision Commission.[4]
1935 - University of Wisconsin.[4]

1933 to 1950 - Associate fellow Branford College (Yale).[4]
1933 to 1936 - President Yale Law School Association.[4]
1933 to 1935 - President Association of the Bar of the City of New York.[4]
1931 to 1949 - Alumni fellow Yale Corporation (member Prudential, Educational Policy, Honorary Degrees, and Finance committees).[4]

Great Depression - 1930 to 1933 - Solicitor General of the United States by President Herbert Hoover (Bohemian)[4]

1930 - LLD Yale 1930.[4]

1925 to 1930 - United States district Judge Southern District of New York by President Calvin Coolidge.(Relative Joseph Coolidge, was a partner of Russell and Co.[William Huntingdon Russell co-founded S&B])[4]

WW1 - 1917 to 1918 - Secretary (with rank of Major) American Red Cross Mission to Russia by President Woodrow Wilson (Col. Edward M. House).[4]

1909 to 1910 - Special Assistant to investigate election frauds.[4]

9 Nov 1907 - Married Waterbury, Conn, Eunice Booth, daughter of Edward Milton and Mary Eunice (Booth). Burrall Children Sarah Booth (B A Smith 1931), the wife of George L Storm, ‘28, Mary Eunice (B A Vassar 1932), the wife of Daniel N Brown, ‘28, Thomas, ‘38 Mrs Thacher died 1943

1907 to 1908 - Assistant United States Attorney Southern District of New York.[4]

1906 to 1950 - Partner Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, and counsel at time of death.[4]

1904 to 1917 - Alumni Fund agent.[4]

1904 to 1906 - Student Law School (Class honors,Betts Prize [divided], Jewell Prize, member Corbey Court) Lawyer New York City.[4]

1904 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[4]

Died 12 Nov 1950, from Coronary Thrombosis. Age 69.

Father, Thomas Thacher (S&B 1871, BA) Mother, Sarah McCullough (Green) Thacher Yale relatives include Jeremiah Day (B.A.1756) (great-great-grandfather),Jeremiah Day (9th President of Yale, BA 1795) (great-grand-father); Thomas A Thacher (S&B 1835, BA)(grandfather); Sherman Day (B.A. 1826),George Thacher (BA 1840), James M Thacher (BA 1842) (great-uncles), James K Thacher (S&B 1868, BA), Edward S. Thacher (BA 1872), Alfred B. Thacher (BA 1874), John S. Thacher (S&B 1877, BA) (uncles), John B Burrall, ‘02 (brother-in-law), Henry C Thacher, ‘02, Thomas A Thacher, ‘08, Albert E Kent, ‘13, Thomas T.Kent, ‘15, William Kent, Jr, ‘17 (Son of S&B 1887), George B. Thacher, ‘25, Sherman Kent, ‘26, Anson S. Thacher, ‘27, John S Thacher, ‘27, Roger Kent, ‘28, Sherman D. Thacher, ‘36 (cousins).[4]