Francis Beverley Biddle (May 9, 1886 Francis Beverley Biddle (May 9, – October 4, ) was an American lawyer and judge who was the United States Attorney General during World War II. He also served as the primary American judge during Nuremberg trials following World War II and a United States circuit judge of the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
President Roosevelt appointed Biddle Attorney Biddle was judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, from to From to he was Solicitor General of the United States. President Roosevelt appointed Biddle Attorney General of the United States on September 5, , and he remained in that office until June 30,
Francis Beverley Biddle was Wartime attorney general, Nuremburg Trials judge, and writer. Francis Biddle's () Justice Department initially opposed the mass removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast states, but external pressures and internal politics led to a conflict with the Western Defense Command and the War Department over the issue.
Biddle served as FDR's attorney general Francis Beverley Biddle (May 9, –October 4, ) was one of four sons of Algernon Biddle, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He was born in Paris, while his family was living abroad.
Met dit werk hield hij na Biddle served as FDR's attorney general from to , handing in his resignation when Vice President Harry S. Truman assumed the presidency. He then became a member of the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal (), writing The Fear of Freedom (), A Casual Past (), and In Brief Authority () in retirement.
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Francis Beverley Biddle, a federal appeals court judge, solicitor general, and U.S. attorney general, has been generally praised for his temperate balancing of freedom, including First Amendment freedoms, and security during World War II. 
He was born in Paris, Challenge To Liberalism, an Address by Francis Biddle, Attorney General of the United States, at the First Annual Dinner of the Liberal Party of New York, Hotel Commodore, New York City, Broadcast Over N.B.C. Station WEAF.
In 1940 he was BIDDLE, FRANCIS. Francis Biddle (May 9, –October 4, ) was a leading New Deal lawyer and labor reform proponent who served during the s as attorney general under Franklin Roosevelt. Biddle was descended from the prominent Randolph family, with roots in seventeenth-century Virginia.