BRIEF BIOGRAPHY FRANCIS M. SHEA

Present Position: Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Claims Division of the Department of Justice. Present Residence Address: 2723 N St., Washington, D. C. Present Business Address: Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. Bom: Manchester, New Hampshire, June 16, 1905. Father's Name: Michael F. Shea. Father's Occupation: Lawyer. Mother's Name: Margaret Muldoon. Attended St. Agnes Grammar School 1911-1917; Manchester High School 1917-1921: Dartmouth College, 1921-1925—A. B. 1925; Harvard Law School 1925-1928—LL. B. 1928. Worked on special research problem in Cambridge 1928-1929. Associated in the practice of the law at Buffalo, New York, with Slee, O'Brian, Hellings & Ulsh, 1929-1933. Chief of the Opinion Section of the Legal Division of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration from September, 1933 to February, 1935. (Wash- ington, D. C.) Expert in the Legal Division of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D. C. from March, 1935, to July, 1935. General Counsel of the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration, Wash- ington, D. C. from August, 1935 to September, 1936. Dean of the University of Buffalo School of Law from September, 1936 to July, 1939 (On leave of absence from the Law School at the present time.) Married Hilda Droshnicop July 22, 1936. Published one article in the COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW entitled Overcrowded?—The Price of Certain Remedies.