Appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and the only chief justice NOT to have served in elected office, what former attorney general famously said, "Courts are not the only agency of government that must be assumed to have capacity to govern"?

Harlan Fiske Stone served as chief justice for 4 years, 293 days, and was one of the liberal "Three Musketeers". Ruling often to uphold the New Deal, he was also chief justice over WWII court cases, including one that upheld the jurisdiction of a U.S. military tribunal in a trial against eight German saboteurs.

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