Hastie, William Henry (1904-1976)

Hastie, William Henry (1904-1976)

WilliamHenry Hastie, attorney and diplomat, was born on November 17, 1904 in Knoxville, Tennessee. He spent his childhood in Tennessee until hisfamily moved to Washington, D.C. Hastie graduated from Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C. in 1921 and four years laterreceived his A.B. Degree from Amherst College in Massachusetts.

Following graduation Hastie was offered fellowships for graduate work at OxfordUniversity and the University of Paris. Hastie decided instead to accept a job at New Jersey’s Bordentown ManualSchool where he was on the faculty until 1927, when he entered HarvardUniversity Law School.

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