Arnold Davydovich Margolin (Ukrainian: Арнольд Марґолін) (born: November 16 [O.S. November 4] 1877, Kiev – died October 29, 1956, Washington DC) – was a Ukrainian diplomat, lawyer, active participant in Ukrainian and Jewish community and political affairs; attorney who became world-famous as the defense counsel for Mendel Beilis in the notorious Jewish blood libel trial in Kiev from 1911 to 1913. Was a justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Ukraine, Undersecretary of State of Ukraine and a member of the Ukrainian delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference between 1918 and 1919.
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17 November 1877 Kiev, Ukraine
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29 October 1956 (aged 78) Washington DC
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Zodiac | Scorpio |
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