Arnold Raum, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American judge
Date of Birth: 27-Oct-1908
Date of Death: 13-Feb-1999
Profession: judge
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Arnold Raum
- Arnold Raum ((1908-10-27)October 27, 1908 – (1999-02-13)February 13, 1999) served as a judge on the United States Tax Court from 1950 to 1998.
- He began working for the United States government in 1932, as an attorney for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
- From 1934 to 1950, he worked in the United States Department of Justice, as a special assistant in the Tax Division (1934–1939), as special assistant to the U.S.
- District Attorney for Louisiana (1939), and as Deputy Solicitor General (1939–1950). Raum was born to Isaac and Ida Raum in Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1908.
- He graduated from Harvard University in 1929, and from Harvard University Law School in 1932.
- Shortly after completing law school, he began working for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
- As special assistant to the U.S.
- District Attorney for Louisiana, he headed investigations into fraud and tax evasion by Louisiana officials.As Deputy Solicitor General, Raum argued numerous cases before the Supreme Court.
- They included United States v.
- State of California (1947), which established that the federal government rather than the California state government owned land under the ocean off the state's coast.
- Raum also played a major role in preparing the government's case in Hirabayashi v.
- United States and argued cases before the Supreme Court establishing the constitutionality of Social Security.
- Raum argued more tax cases before the Supreme Court than any person before him.In 1950, Raum was appointed to the United States Tax Court by President Harry Truman.
- As Tax Court judge, Raum presided over the 1957 trial of former New York City mayor William O'Dwyer.
- Raum took senior judge status in 1978 and continued to serve on the court until 1998.
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