Cardozo, << kahr DOH zoh, >> Benjamin Nathan (1870-1938), served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1932 until his death. He became a leading member of the court’s liberal wing, and wrote the court’s opinion upholding the federal Social Security Act in 1937.
Cardozo was born in New York City on May 24, 1870. He graduated from Columbia University. In 1914, Cardozo became a member of the New York Court of Appeals, and he was selected as chief judge of the court in 1926. President Herbert Hoover appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1932 to succeed Oliver Wendell Holmes. Cardozo died on July 9, 1938.
