Sherburne Gillette Hopkins
Sherburne Gillette Hopkins (born October 5, 1868 in Washington, DC , † June 22, 1932 ibid) was a Washington lawyer .
Life
Sherburne Gillette Hopkins' father was Thomas S. Hopkins, who ran the Hopkins & Hopkins law firm with him . Thomas S. Hopkins was for a long time the Washington attorney for Charles Ranlett Flint, a shareholder in Pierce Oil Corporation, a subsidiary of Standard Oil Company .
Sherburne Gillette Hopkins graduated from Columbia University with a law degree and was admitted to the bar in 1889. 1891 organized Hopkins weapons for the coup of Jorge Montt in Chile . In the Spanish-American War of 1898 Hopkins was used as a captain in Cuba . From 1910 Sherburne Gillette Hopkins did public relations work for the project of the Mexican revolution of Francisco I. Madero . Hopkins claimed that the son of Porfirio Díaz , Coronel ingeniero Porfirio Díaz Ortega, owned 200 shares at a price per share of $ 1000 and an 8% return in El Aguilar, a public company founded by the British Weetman Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray was possessed. In 1914, Sherburne was Gillette Hopkins, attorney for Henry Clay Pierce (1849-1927 Standard Oil), who tried to find that he was not supporting Venustiano Carranza .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b The New York Times , June 29, 1914, "big business" was financing both Mexican factions , Mr. Flint ... His acquaintance with Capt. Hopkins is slight, but his father, Thomas S. Hopkins, has long been his attorney in Washington.
- ^ Frank Moore Colby , Allen Leon Churchill, Herbert Treadwell Wade: The New international year book , 1933
- ^ Merrill Rippy, Oil and the Mexican revolution
- ↑ photo
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| SURNAME | Hopkins, Sherburne Gillette |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hopkins, Sherburne G. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lawyer and PR specialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Washington DC, USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 22, 1932 |
| Place of death | Washington DC, USA |