[3] Surrey graduated from the City College of New York in 1929 and from Columbia University Law School in 1932.
[4] Interrupted by a stint in the Navy, Surrey then served at the Treasury Department until 1947.
[2] At the time of his death in 1984, he was retired as the Jeremiah Smith Professor of Law at Harvard and was serving as a visiting professor at Boston College Law School.
[1] Surrey's projects and appointments included serving as chief reporter for the Income Tax Project of the American Law Institute, founding the International Program in Taxation at Harvard, serving as president of the National Tax Association in 1979 and 1980.
[4] His publications included a casebook he co-authored with William C. Warren, entitled "Federal Income Taxation: Cases and Materials.