REED, STANLEY F(ORMAN)

born Dec. 31, 1884, Maysville, Ky., U.S. died April 3, 1980, Huntington, N.Y. associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (193857). Reed studied law at the University of Virginia and at the Sorbonne in Paris. He served in the Kentucky legislature from 1912 to 1916 and in army intelligence during World War I. In 1929 he was appointed by Pres. Herbert Hoover to the Federal Farm Board and in 1932 by Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt as counsel for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, where he was involved with emergency New Deal financial measures. In 1935 he became U.S. solicitor general, in which capacity he was responsible for presenting the government's arguments on contested New Deal programs to the U.S. Supreme Court. He was elevated to the court in 1938. Reed sided with the liberal majority on the court in the economic issues of the time but was a traditionalist in his construction of the division of powers. He voted with the majority in Wolf v. Colorado (1949) and Irvine v. California (1954) that illegally obtained evidence is admissible, and his opinion in Adamson v. California marked the last time that the Bill of Rights guarantees would be held to be applicable to the federal government but not to the states.