06/02/2026
This home belongs to Ludwigs own 4th generation owner and master photographer Anne Brande.
🧸 135 years ago today, on June 2, 1891, Thurman W. Arnold was born in family home at 812 Grand Avenue, Laramie, Wyo.
"Thurman Arnold, Laramie Lawyer and New Deal Trustbuster" written by Dee Pridgen shares the rest of the story. ⚖️
"In 1939, The Saturday Evening Post published a lengthy profile of Thurman W. Arnold, a lawyer born and raised in Laramie, Wyo., dubbing him a “Trust Buster” and calling him “probably the most singular figure in the American Government today.”
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s appointment of Arnold to head the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division in 1938 had pushed him into the national spotlight. In 1940, Arnold found himself arguing one of the most important antitrust cases of all times in front of the United States Supreme Court. In this case, the Justice Department had convicted several major oil companies and their officers for illegal price-fixing. As Arnold stood before the assembled justices, he must have been comforted by the sight on the Supreme Court bench of his old friend and colleague, Justice William O. Douglas, with whom he had served on the Yale law faculty." CONTINUE READING 👉 https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/thurman-arnold-laramie-lawyer-and-new-deal-trustbuster
📷 Thurman Arnold’s parents, C.P and Annie Brockway Arnold built this house on the 800 block of Grand Avenue in Laramie in 1889; Thurman was born in the front room in 1891. This photo is from the 1920s. American Heritage Center.
