Attorney General: Harlan F. Stone
Harlan Fiske Stone was born in Chesterfield, New Hampshire, on October 11, 1872. He graduated from Amherst College with a bachelor’s degree in 1894, from Columbia Law School in 1898, and was admitted to the New York bar. He became a member of the law firm of Wilmer & Canfield, and later of its successor, Satterlee, Canfield & Stone. Stone returned to Columbia Law School where he lectured from 1899 to 1902, was a professor of law from 1902 to 1905, and served as dean from 1910 to 1923.
Stone was appointed Attorney General of the United States by President Calvin Coolidge on April 7, 1924, and held that office until March 2, 1925. He joined the U.S. Supreme Court as an Associate Justice on March 2, 1925, and was elevated to Chief Justice on July 3, 1941. Stone served as Chief Justice until his death on April 22, 1946, in Washington, D.C.
Ercole Cartotto was born in Italy in 1889 and studied art in Boston, Massachusetts, with some of the most prominent portrait artists, including Edmund Tarbell and Philip Leslie Hale. Based in New York City and Connecticut, he specialized in portraiture of prominent individuals. Cartotto's portrait of Attorney General Stone was painted in 1926. He died in 1946.