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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: born in Baltimore, December 3rd 1894. Simon Sobeloff, who argued for the Eisenhower administration in Brown v. Board of Education Graduating from the University of Maryland Law School, he was assistant city solicitor, then deputy city solicitor. President Herbert Hoover named him U.S. Attorney for Maryland. Positions after that were city solicitor and counsel to the housing commission. Next, a Republican Governor appointed him chief judge of the appellate court. In 1954, Dwight Eisenhower made the talented attorney his Solicitor General. It was Sobeloff who argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on implementing the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Two years later, the President appointed him to the U.S. Court of Appeals. His reputation: "Moderate to the Extreme"