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  • Charles Evans Hughes

    Charles Evans Hughes in the United States Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948), American jurist and statesman, thought by many to have been the greatest chief justice of the United States since John Marshall. Hughes was born in Glens Falls, New York, on April 11, 1862. He was educated at Brown […]

  • Thurgood Marshall

    Thurgood Marshall in the United States Marshall, Thurgood (1908-1993), American civil rights lawyer, the first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. Throughout his long and varied career, Marshall was a tireless advocate for the rights of minorities and the poor. Early […]

  • Alan Morton Dershowitz

    Alan Morton Dershowitz in the United States Dershowitz, Alan Morton (1938- ), American law professor and defense attorney, born in New York City, and educated at Brooklyn College and Yale Law School (1962), graduating first in his class. Dershowitz served a one-year clerkship in 1963 with […]

  • Harlan F. Stone

    Harlan F. Stone in the United States American law scholar and educator (October 11, 1872 – April 22, 1946), born in Chesterfield, N. H., 11 Oct. 1872. He was graduated at Amherst College (1894), received the degree LL.B., Columbia University of Law (1898), and LL.D., Amherst (1913). He was […]

  • Franklin Knight Lane

    Franklin Knight Lane in the United States Franklin Knight Lane (1864-1921), American public official, was born near Charlottetown, P.E.I., Canada, July 15 1864. He was taken to California in childhood and graduated from the university of California in 1886. He began his career as a newspaper […]

  • Elbert Henry Gary

    Elbert Henry Gary in the United States Elbert Henry Gary (1846-1927), American lawyer and business man, was born near Wheaton, Ill., Oct. 8 1846. He attended Wheaton College and then after studying law for a time in an office he continued his legal studies at the university of Chicago […]

  • McAdoo, William Gibbs

    McAdoo, William Gibbs in the United States McAdoo, William Gibbs (1863-1941), American public official, was born near Marietta, Ga., Oct. 31 1863. He entered the university of Tennessee but did not finish his course. In 1882 he became a clerk in the U.S. Circuit Court of Chattanooga, read […]

  • Louis Dembitz Brandeis

    Louis Dembitz Brandeis in the United States Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941), American lawyer and jurist, was born in Louisville, Ky., Nov. 13 1856. He was educated in the public schools of his native city and at the Annen Realschule, Dresden, Germany. He graduated from the Harvard Law […]

  • Alton Brooks Parker

    Alton Brooks Parker in the United States Alton Brooks Parker (1852 -1926), American judge and lawyer, was born at Cortland, N.Y., May 14 1852. He studied at the local academy and normal school, taught for a short time, read law in an office, and in 1873 graduated from the Albany Law School. […]

  • Lawyer´s history

    Lawyer´s history in the United States Ancient Greece The earliest people who could be described as lawyers were probably the orators of ancient Athens (see History of Athens). However, Athenian orators faced serious structural obstacles. First, there was a rule that individuals were […]