Among the Bull Moosers in the crowd were former Democrats and Republicans, including future Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, columnist Walter Lippman, "wise-use conservationist" Gifford Pinchot, Judge Learned Hand and settlement house pioneer Jane Addams, who became the first woman to give a nominating speech at an American political convention.

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Perhaps the only justice with a semi-conventional path was Felix Frankfurter, a Jew whose family emigrated from Austria when he was 12.

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