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Arthur Joseph Goldberg was born and raised on the West Side of Chicago. He was an American statesman and jurist who served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor, Supreme Court Justice and Ambassador to the United Nations. He began his legal studies in 1926 at the Northwestern University School of Law where he was the editor-in-chief of the Illinois Law Review. He received a Bachelor of Science in Law, magna cum laude after finishing at the top of his class in 1929 and a Doctor of Juridical Science, summa cum laude one year later in 1930. He taught at John Marshall Law School in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s before becoming a U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice and then the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.