Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. He was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and attended Waldron Academy and West Philadelphia Catholic High School for Boys, also known as West Catholic. He graduated from Georgetown University in 1934 and from the University of Michigan Law School in 1937. He was admitted to the Michigan bar in 1938 and practiced law in Detroit. During the Second World War, he served in the U.S. Army from 1941 until discharged in 1946 as a lieutenant colonel of Infantry. He was wounded during the D-Day assault on Utah Beach in Normandy, France.