Fiorello H. La Guardia as Mayor of New York City. La Guardia appointed Thacher to serve as the leader on the commission to write a new city charter and to the city's Corporation Counsel in 1943. He was a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1943 to 1948, appointed to that post by Governor of New York Thomas E. Dewey. Other service and family Thacher served as a fellow of the Yale Corporation from 1931 to 1949, President of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York from 1933 to 1935, and was a member of numerous social clubs. He first married Eunice Booth Burall, and had three children. After Eunice's death in 1943, Thacher married Eleanor M. Lloyd on July 20, 1945. Death Thacher died of a coronary thrombosis on November 12, 1950, at his home in New York City. He was interred in Brookside Cemetery in Englewood, New Jersey. References Sources External links Thomas Day Thacher papers (MS 757). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. 1881 births 1950 deaths Judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York United States district court judges appointed by Calvin Coolidge 20th-century American judges Judges of the New York Court of Appeals People from Tenafly, New Jersey United States Solicitors General Yale Law School alumni Phillips Academy alumni Presidents of the New York City Bar Association Burials at Brookside Cemetery (Englewood, New Jersey) Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Taft School alumni Assistant United States Attorneys