[1] Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
Father: James Harlen Griswold (attorney)
Mother: Hope Erwin
Brother: James
Sister: Hope Curfman
Wife: Harriet Allena Ford (m. 30-Dec-1931, until his death, one daughter, one son)
Daughter: Hope Murrow
Son: William
High School: Shaw Public High School, East Cleveland, OH (1921)
University: AB, Oberlin College (1925)
Law School: LLB, Harvard Law School (1928)
Law School: SJD, Harvard Law School (1929)
Professor: Law, Harvard Law School (1934-46)
Administrator: Dean, Harvard Law School (1946-67)
Administrator: Trustee, Oberlin College
Jones Day (1973-94)
US Solicitor General (1967-73)
US Commission on Civil Rights (1961-67)
US Justice Department Special Asst. to US Attorney General (1929-34)
Griswold, Green, Palmer & Hadden Associate (1929)
American Bar Foundation President (1971-74)
Association of American Law Schools President (1957-58)
Ohio State Bar Association 1929
Supreme Court Historical Society Trustee
Author of books:
Spendthrift Trusts (1936)
Cases on Federal Taxation (1940)
Cases on Conflict Laws (1942)
The Fifth Amendment Today: Three Speeches by Erwin Griswold (1955)
The Fifth Amendment Today: Law and Lawyers in the United States (1992)