James Crawford Biggs

James Crawford Biggs

James Crawford Biggs (born August 29, 1872 in Oxford , Granville County , North Carolina , † January 30, 1960 in Raleigh , North Carolina) was an American politician , lawyer and United States Solicitor General .

biography

After attending the Horner Military School in his hometown from 1883 to 1887, he later studied philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in 1893 earned a Bachelor of Arts ( BA Philosophy ). He then completed his postgraduate studies of law at the Law School of the University ended this in 1894 and soon after became a lawyer in the state approved North Carolina. He then did his military service in the State Guard of North Carolina between 1894 and 1898 .

At the same time from 1897 to 1898 he was also Mayor of Oxford; then he took a position as professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and taught there until 1900. In 1905 he was a member of the House of Representatives from North Carolina for a short time , but soon took over the office of registrar ( reporter ) on Supreme Court ( Supreme Court ) of North Carolina. He was then between 1907 and 1911 a judge at a Superior Court .

After a subsequent year as a professor of law at Trinity Law School , he returned to practice as a lawyer in 1912. In May 1933 he was appointed Solicitor General by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and held the third most important office in the United States Department of Justice until March 1935.

Web links

• Biography Ministry of Justice (English)
• James Crawford Biggs in nndb (English)