William L. Frierson

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William L. Frierson

William Little Frierson (born September 3, 1868 in Shelbyville , Bedford County , Tennessee , †  May 25, 1953 in Chattanooga , Tennessee) was an American politician , lawyer and United States Solicitor General .

biography

After attending school, he studied at the Southern Presbyterian University in Clarksville , where he earned a Bachelor of Arts (AB) in 1887 . After his admission to the bar in Tennessee in 1889, he worked as a lawyer. He was Mayor of Chattanooga between 1905 and 1907 and later the city's prosecutor from 1912 to 1915. In 1916 he was for some time a special judge ( Special Justice ) at the Supreme Court of Tennessee ( Tennessee State Supreme Court ).

In 1917 he became an employee of the United States Department of Justice and was initially assistant to the US Attorney General until 1920 . In June 1920 he was appointed Solicitor General by President Woodrow Wilson and thus took third place within the US Department of Justice for one year until June 1921.

After retiring from the government, he became a partner in the law firm Williams & Frierson and was also president of the Tennessee Bar Association from 1922 to 1923 .

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SURNAME Frierson, William L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frierson, William Little (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician, lawyer, and United States Solicitor General
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Shelbyville , Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1953
Place of death Chattanooga , Tennessee