John T. Cahill (lawyer)

Cahill was the son of a New York City Police Officer who had immigrated from Ireland. He attended Townsend Harris High School, a public school in New York and later attended Columbia University, A.B. (1924) and Harvard Law School, LL.B. (1927). ==Personal life==

He was married to Grace Pickens who was one of the Pickens Sisters, a singing trio born on a Georgia plantation that reached national stardom in the 1930s with its own radio show, concert tours and records. They had 4 children. His daughter Catherine married William Lehman Bernhard (b. 1931), son of Dorothy Lehman Bernhard. == References ==