After taking his J.D. degree in 1930 from the Northwestern University
School of Law, Arthur Goldberg established a practice in Chicago
and quickly became a prominent attorney. He represented many of
the nation's leading unions and, in 1961, accepted the appointment
by President John F. Kennedy as Secretary of Labor. From 1962 to
1965, Goldberg served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him the U.S. ambassador to
the United Nations, but Goldberg's opposition to the escalation
of the war in Vietnam led to his resignation from the ambassadorship
in 1968. He worked for the Carter administration in 1977 and 1978
as an ambassador-at-large, and remained an articulate spokesman
for human rights until his death in 1990.
