Brandeis, Frankfurter on new stamps

The images of Jewish Supreme Court justices Louis Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter are included in a new series of postage stamps.

The series of 44-cent stamps released by the U.S. Postal Service also includes 19th-century Justice Joseph Story and Justice William Brennan from the 20th century.

Brandeis, the nation’s first Jewish justice, was appointed to the high court in 1916 by President Woodrow Wilson and served 23 years.

Frankfurter, whose family emigrated from Austria in 1894, rose from the poverty of the tenements of New York to attend City College and Harvard Law, where he graduated first in his class. He was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1939 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and served until 1962.  — jta