Viewing Lawyers Category (12) found:Michael J. Daly, Sr. (1861-1928).Michael James Daly lived and practiced law in Perham, Minnesota, from 1886 to 1928. He was Otter Tail County Attorney for four terms, 1891-1889, state senator for one term, 1899-1903, village attorney for 23 years and member of the school board for 12 years. He died of a heart attack on October 5, ... 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. ... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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.
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.
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... George A. Palmer, "The Frontier Lawyer in Minnesota After the Civil War" Part One (1931).In 1931 George A. Palmer wrote a paper on the frontier lawyer in postbellum Minnesota for a "seminar in the social and economic history of the northwest, 1865-1880" taught by Solon J. Buck, a professor in the history department at the University of Minnesota. Palmer's paper was subsequently donated... George A. Palmer, "The Frontier Lawyer in Minnesota After the Civil War" Part Two (1931).The second half of George A. Palmer's paper on the frontier lawyer in Minnesota after the Civil War is posted here. Part One is posted separately. ... A. W. Ames, "The North Dakota Bar of the Pioneer Days" (1923).Lawyer A. W. Ames' recollections of practicing law in North Dakota Territory in the 1880s describes as well the practice of law in rural Minnesota from the 1860 to the 1890s. It was published first in the April 1923 issue of "The Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota" and is posted he... |