James Coolidge Carter
James Coolidge Carter (born October 14, 1827 in Lancaster , Massachusetts , † February 14, 1905 in New York ) was an American lawyer . He was considered one of the leading New York lawyers of his time.
Carter obtained his first degree from Harvard University in 1950 , graduated from the law school there in 1853 and began his practice as a lawyer in New York that same year .
James C. Carter represented the city of New York from 1874 in the trial against the corrupt politician William Tweed . His counterpart in this process was David Dudley Field , whose efforts to codify the law Carter fought against in the following years. 1875 belonged to Carter by Governor Samuel J. Tilden employed Commission to regulate the municipal constitution of the cities of the State of New York . In 1888 he was a member of the state constitutional commission set up by Governor David B. Hill . In 1892, Carter was one of the lawyers advocating the United States' interests in the Bering Sea litigation (see Bering Sea # History ). In 1895 he made a much-noticed plea in favor of the constitutional conformity of income tax in the Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. , but the judgment was in favor of the other party.
From 1894 Carter was the founding president of the National Municipal League (later the National Civic League ), a union of American cities. In 1895 he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society , in 1896 a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He was involved in the founding of the New York Bar Association (Association of the Bar of the City of New York) and served as the first President of the City Club of New York from 1892 and as President of the American Bar Association in 1894/1895 .
Carter remained a bachelor throughout his life.
Fonts (selection)
- The Codification of our Common Law , 1883
- The Provinces of the Written and the Unwritten Law , 1889
- The Ideal and Actual Law , 1890
- Law: Its Origin, Growth and Function , 1907
Sources and References
literature
- Gilbert John Clark: James Coolidge Carter, New York. In: Life Sketches of Eminent Lawyers (1895)
- Carter, James Coolidge . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 1 : Aaron - Crandall . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1887, p. 540 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
- Carter, James Coolidge . In: The New International Encyclopædia . 1905 ( Wikisource ).
- Carter, James Coolidge . In: The Encyclopedia Americana . 1920 ( Wikisource ).
- Carter, James Coolidge. In: Biographical Dictionary of the Common Law. Butterworths, 1984, ISBN 0-406-51657-X
- Leonard Schlup: Carter, James Coolidge. In: Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age. ME Sharpe, 2003 ISBN 978-0-7656-2106-1 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. 157 US 429 (1895). In: supreme.justia.com. Retrieved August 22, 2017 (English).
- ^ American Philosophical Society - Member History ; accessed on August 22, 2017.
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter C. (PDF; 1.3 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved August 22, 2017 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carter, James Coolidge |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carter, James C. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lancaster, Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 1905 |
| Place of death | New York City |