James Clark McReynolds in the United States
McReynolds James Clark
Introduction to James Clark McReynolds
James Clark McReynolds (1862-1946), American jurist, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court and statesman. Born in Elkton, Kentucky, and educated at Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia, McReynolds practiced law in Nashville, Tennessee, and in 1900 became a professor of law at Vanderbilt University. He was appointed assistant U.S. attorney general by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903. After four years, he returned to private law practice. In 1913 he was appointed attorney general by President Woodrow Wilson. As attorney general McReynolds directed the prosecution of the Union and Southern Pacific Railroad merger and antitrust suits against the International Harvester Company, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad. From 1914 until his retirement in 1941 he served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court.” (1)
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- Information about James Clark McReynolds in the Encarta Online Encyclopedia