Harold Leventhal

Who was Harold Leventhal?

Harold Leventhal was a United States federal judge.

Leventhal was born in New York City, New York. He received an A.B. from Columbia University in 1934. He received an LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1936, where he was editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review. He was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court justices Harlan Fiske Stone and Stanley Forman Reed. He was an Attorney for the Office of the Solicitor General of the United States from 1937 to 1938 and from 1938 to 1939. He was a Chief of litigation for the Bituminous Coal Division of the U.S. Department of the Interior from 1939 to 1940. He was an Assistant general counsel for the U.S. Office of Price Administration from 1940 to 1943. He was a U.S. Coast Guard Reserve Lieutenant Commander from 1943 to 1946. He served on the staff of Justice Robert H. Jackson during the Nuremberg Trials from 1945 to 1946. He then returned to his position as assistant general counsel for the U.S. Office of Price Administration in 1946. He was in private practice of law in Washington, D.C. from 1946 to 1951, before returning to the U.S. Office of Price Administration as chief counsel from 1951 to 1952.