Frederick William Lehmann

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Greeting card from Frederick William Lehmann to Felix Frankfurter , a future Supreme Court Justice of the United States

Frederick William Lehmann (born February 28, 1853 in Prussia , †  September 12, 1931 in St. Louis , Missouri ) was an American lawyer and United States Solicitor General .

biography

The Lehmann, who came from a Prussian immigrant family, studied at Tabor College in Kansas and obtained a Bachelor of Arts (AB) there in 1873 . After his admission to the bar in the state of Iowa , he practiced as a lawyer and was a partner in the law firm Boyle, Priest & Lehmann from 1895 to 1905 . At the same time he was President of the Public Library of St. Louis between 1900 and 1910 and was also involved in the Saint Louis Art Museum, founded in 1879, and in the Historical Society of the State of Missouri. As a member of the Democratic Party , he attended the Democratic National Convention in 1888 as a delegate from Iowa .

In 1905 he became a partner in the law firm Lehmann & Lehmann and between 1908 and 1909 was also President of the American Bar Association . In December 1910, Frederick William Lehmann was appointed Solicitor General by US President William Howard Taft and as such took third rank in the hierarchy of the United States Department of Justice until July 1912 .

After retiring from government service, he returned to practice as a lawyer and, on behalf of President Woodrow Wilson , represented the United States in 1914 with Joseph Rucker Lamar at a conference of the ABC states in Niagara Falls ( Canada ).

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SURNAME Lehmann, Frederick William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and United States Solicitor General
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Prussia
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1931
Place of death St. Louis , Missouri