An edition of America's lawyer-presidents
(2009)
America's lawyer-presidents
from law office to Oval Office
Updated ed.
by Norman Gross and Sandra Day O'Connor
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Publish Date
2009
Publisher
ABA Museum of Law,
Northwestern University Press
Language
English
Pages
371
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Lawyers, Biography, Presidents, Presidents, united statesPlaces
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America's lawyer-presidents: from law office to Oval Office
2009, ABA Museum of Law, Northwestern University Press
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- Updated ed.
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Table of Contents
Law in colonial America -- Lawrence M. Friedman
John Adams : patriot lawyer -- L. Kinvin Wroth
Thomas Jefferson : legal wordsmith -- David T. Konig
James Monroe : occasional lawyer -- Daniel Preston
John Quincy Adams : eloquent advocate -- Howard Jones
Law in Antebellum America -- Lawrence M. Friedman
Andrew Jackson : frontier justice -- David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler
Martin Van Buren : boy lawyer -- James A. Henretta
John Tyler : Virginia counsel -- E. Lee Shepard
James K. Polk : sometime lawyer -- Robert W. Johannsen
Millard Fillmore : lawyer mentor -- Elbert B. Smith
Franklin Pierce : courtroom orator -- Christopher M. Johnson
James Buchanan : strict constructionist -- Jean H. Baker
Abraham Lincoln : prairie lawyer -- Paul Finkelman
Selected cases of A. Lincoln, Esq., attorney and counsellor-at-Law -- John A. Lupton
Lincoln's notes for a law lecture --
Law in the gilded age
Lawrence M. Friedman
Rutherford B. Hayes : volunteer counsel -- Ari Hoogenboom
James A. Garfield : Supreme Court counsel -- Allan Peskin
Chester A. Arthur : war claims lawyer -- Thomas C. Reeves
Grover Cleveland : an honest lawyer -- Eugene C. Gerhart
Benjamin Harrison : high-priced counsel -- Allen Sharp
William McKinley : a good lawyer -- Lewis L. Gould
Law in the new century -- Lawrence M. Friedman
William Howard Taft : Mr. Chief Justice -- Melvyn Dubofsky
Woodrow Wilson : reluctant lawyer -- Melvin I. Urofsky
Calvin Coolidge : country lawyer -- Russell Fowler
Franklin Delano Roosevelt : contrarian counselor -- Jerome J. Shestack
Law in modern America -- Lawrence M. Friedman
Richard M. Nixon : bicoastal practitioner -- Irwin F. Gellman
Gerald R. Ford : all-American counsel -- David Horrocks
William Jefferson Clinton : political lawyer -- David H. Bennett
Barack Obama : community organizer -- Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
Almost lawyer-presidents -- Lewis L. Guold
Lawyer-Presidents and their Supreme Court appointments -- Barbara A. Perry
Lawyer-Presidents and their attorneys (general) -- Cornell W. Clayton
Attorney general appointments --
Solicitor general appointments.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-360) and index.
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