Edward Allen Tamm

Edward Allen Tamm (typically "E.A. Tamm" in FBI files, sometimes "Edward Tamm") (April 21, 1906 – September 22, 1985) worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), reaching the third-highest position as Assistant to the Director (J. Edgar Hoover ) before accepting an appointment as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and then United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit .

Contents

• 1 Early life and education

• 2 Career

  • 2.1 FBI

  • 2.2 Federal judicial service

• 3 Personal life and death

• 4 Awards and recognition

• 5 Legacy

• 6 See also

• 7 References

• 8 External sources

Early life and education

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Georgetown University Law School (circa 1910-1925), where Tamm first studied law

Edward Allen Tamm was born on April 21, 1906, in Saint Paul , Minnesota . His parents were Edward Allen Tamm and Lucille Catherine Buckley.[_citation needed
] In 1925, Tamm studied at St. Charles College of Helena, Montana .[citation needed
_] In 1930, he received an LLB from Georgetown University Law School .

Career

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In 1928, Tamm arrived in Washington, where he attended Georgetown University Law School and graduated in 1930.

FBI

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In 1930, Tamm joined what was then the Bureau of Information (and in 1935 became the FBI) as a special agent.

In 1934, he became a special assistant to the FBI Director.

In 1940, he became the Assistant to the Director, second only to Clyde Tolson .

In 1945, Tamm served as FBI "special adviser" in the US delegation to the United Nations Conference on International Organization .

In his 2009 book The FBI and the Catholic Church, 1935-1962, author Steve Rosswurm devoted a chapter to Tamm. Rosswurm credits Tamm, "the FBI's highest-ranking Catholic, in forging the alliance" between the FBI and the Catholic Church during the 1930s and 1940s.

(On May 5, 1949, Hoover appointed D.M. Ladd to Tamm's Number 3 position of Assistant to the Director. Ladd took over "supervision of all the FBI's investigative activities in both criminal and subversive fields." )

Federal judicial service

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On June 22, 1948, Tamm received a recess appointment from US President Harry S. Truman to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia vacated by Judge James McPherson Proctor .

On January 13, 1949, Truman nominated him to the same position; on March 29, 1949, the United States Senate confirmed him; and on April 1, 1949, he received his commission.

(Congress subsequently reorganized the court. His service terminated on March 16, 1965, due to elevation to the D.C. Circuit.

) That court dealt also heard cases for the District of Columbia "normally... tried before state courts" and appointed the DC school board.

On March 1, 1965, US President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Tamm as an associate justice of the federal District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, a seat vacated by Walter M. Bastian . On March 11, 1965, the Senate confirmed him, and on March 11, 1965, he received his commission. He served until his death in 1985.

At the time of his elevation, the Washington Post retracted concern from 1949 as to whether a high-level FBI official would serve well as a judge:

[Tamm] has won general recognition as a trial judge of great fairness and firmness. His devotion to the law and his understanding of it have been enriched by his experience on the bench. He has thoroughly earned elevation, and there is every reason to expect that he will be a discerning and dedicated appellate judge.

In 1977, as the Washington Post noted, Tamm:

set aside an FCC ruling that seven words (referring to such things as various sexua

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