Herbert Brownell, Jr.


Herbert Brownell Jr. , was an attorney and Republican Party organizer who served from 1953 to 1957 the Attorney General in the administration of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Brownell, one of the seven children of Herbert and May Miller Brownell, was born in Nemaha County, Nebraska near the town of Peru. His father, Herbert Brownell, Sr., was a professor and author at the Peru State Normal School in education and physical sciences. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Nebraska in 1924, and, in his senior year, being a member of the Society of Innocents, Brownell attended Yale Law School, earning his law degree in 1927. While at the University of Nebraska he joined The Delta Upsilon Fraternity.

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