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U.S. #965
3¢ Harlan F. Stone

Issue Date: August 25, 1948
City: Chesterfield, NH
Quantity: 53,958,100
Printed by: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Printing Method: Rotary Press
Perforations: 10 1/2 x 11
Color: Bright violet

U.S. #965 honors late U.S. Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone. The stamp features a portrait of Stone in the format of the Famous Americans stamps, which includes the scales of justice.

Harlan Fiske Stone (1872-1946)
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone was born on October 11, 1872, in Chesterfield, New Hampshire.

Stone attended Amherst College before earning his bachelor of law degree from Columbia Law School in 1898. He practiced law in New York City for a few years before returning to Columbia as a teacher and later the dean.

During World War I Stone served on the War Department’s Board of Inquiry, reviewing nearly 3,000 cases of conscientious objectors that had been denied by their draft boards. After the war he grew increasingly unhappy at Columbia and resigned his deanship, joining a prestigious New York law firm.