Brandeis (Louis D.) is born in Louisville, Kentucky.

The son of Jewish immigrants, Louis Brandeis does not attend college, but graduates from Harvard Law School, and practices law briefly in St. Louis. He returns to Boston in 1879, opens an office at 60 Devonshire Street, and takes so many pro bono social justice cases that he comes to be called “The people’s attorney.” He lives at 6 Otis Place from 1900 to 1916, appears before the Supreme Court in a particularly noteworthy case in 1908, * and is appointed to the court in 1916,* joining fellow justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in a number of important dissents. Brandeis dies in Washington, D.C. on October 5, 1941 and is buried on the campus of the University of Louisville Law School.