Early Life
Griswold was born to parents James Harlen and Hope (Erwin) in East Cleveland, Ohio. Griswold graduated from Oberlin College in 1925 with an A.B. in mathematics and an M.A. in political science. He attended Harvard Law School from 1925 to 1929, earning an LL.B. summa cum laude in 1928 and an S.J.D. degree in 1929. Used by law professionals in all but four of the United States, The Bluebook, a uniform system of legal citation, was first compiled in 1926 by Griswold, while a student at HLS.
In 1929, Griswold was admitted to the Ohio bar and spent six weeks working as a partner in his father's Cleveland law firm of Griswold, Green, Palmer & Hadden. He subsequently joined the U.S. Office of the Solicitor General as a staff attorney and served as a special assistant to the attorney general from 1929-1934. There he worked under Solicitor General Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., son of the future Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, Charles Evans Hughes, Sr. He became an expert at arguing tax cases before the Supreme Court, and is considered one of the great scholars in tax law.
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