Viewing Lawyers Category (11) found:Lafayette French, Sr. (1848-1912) & Lafayette French, Jr. (1887-1948)Lafayette French built a towering reputation as a trial lawyer in southern Minnesota from the 1870s to his death in 1912. He was President of the Minnesota State Bar Association in 1909. His son, Lafayette French II, followed him into the law, and served as United States Attorney from 1923 through... Cushman Kellogg Davis: "Cross Examination." (1907)Before he became a U. S. Senator, Cushman Kellogg Davis was a renowned trial lawyer in Minnesota. When compiling "Tact in Court," a book on trial practice, Joseph Wesley Donovan, who was a circuit court judge in Detroit, asked Senator Davis for his advice. Davis's reply appears in "Cross-Examinati... Eugene M. Wilson (1833-1890).Eugene McLanahan Wilson was a Civil War veteran who served in Congress from 1869 to 1871, two terms as mayor of Minneapolis, 1873 to 1877, and as state senator in 1879-1880. He was a member of the Minneapolis Park Commission, and a prominent Democrat.
George F. Longsdorf: "An Appreciative Sketch of Frank B. Kellogg." (1912).On May 15, 1911, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey was an unreasonable combination in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, and ordered it dissolved. As a result, the government's lead trial lawyer, Frank B. Kellogg of St. Paul, became the subject o... Douglas A. Hedin: "Frank W. Murphy, A Lawyer in His Times."Frank W. Murphy (August 24, 1869-November 22, 1940) is the subject of this article. His rise from a young lawyer starting out in Wheaton, Minnesota in 1893 to leadership of his profession and political prominence during the first four decades of the last century is described and placed within the po... James Grafton Rogers: "Cordenio Arnold Severance." (1932)Cordenio Arnold Severance (1862-1925) was the 44th President of the American Bar Association. He served in 1921-1922, only nine years after his law partner, Frank B. Kellogg, held that office.
James Grafton Rogers: "Frank Billings Kellogg." (1932)Frank Billings Kellogg (1856-1937) was the 35th President of the American Bar Association, serving in 1912-1913, nine years before his partner, Cordenio Severance, held that office.
Michael E. Ames (1822 - 1862).Michael Ames practiced law in Minnesota from 1849-1850 to 1862, when he died in an accident in St. Paul. He was a member of the Democratic slate at the constitutional convention in 1857.
Gilbert J. Clark: "Cushman Kellogg Davis." (1895).In 1895, Gilbert Clark, a Kansas City lawyer, published "Life Sketches of Eminent Lawyers," a two volume set of short profiles of 146 famous lawyers and judges. Cushman Kellogg Davis, then in his second term as U. S. Senator, was one of those "sketched" by Clark. ... Roger G. Kennedy: "Frank Billings Kellogg." (1969)Frank Billings Kellogg (1856-1937) was a named partner in Minnesota's first nationally prominent law firm, Davis, Kellogg and Severance, a famous "trust buster" under President Theodore Roosevelt, a United States Senator from 1917 to 1923, Secretary of State in the Coolidge Administration, recipient... John W. Mason (1846-1927).John W. Mason was a pioneer lawyer in Otter Tail County, the first mayor of Fergus Falls, the first president of the city's board of education, public speaker, civic leader, state legislator, a successful railroad lawyer, and county historian. A mammoth, two volume history of the county, which he e... |