Miller, David Hunter (02 January 1875–21 July 1961), lawyer, State Department official, and historian, was born in New York City, the son of Walter Thomas Miller, a stockbroker and a member of the New York cotton exchange, and Christiana Wylie. He was educated in private and public schools in New York. Soon after the United States declared war with Spain, Miller enlisted in the Ninth New York Volunteers, serving in the army from May to November 1898. After his military service he began working in his father’s brokerage. In 1900 he married Sarah Whipple Simmons; they had no children. In 1904 he decided to prepare himself for a legal career and entered the New York Law School, where he earned an LL.B. in 1910 and an LL.M. the next year. Admitted to the New York bar, he began the general practice of law....
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Miller, David Hunter (1875-1961), lawyer, State Department official, and historian
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Smith, Richard (1735-1803), lawyer, diarist, and member of the Continental Congress
Thaddeus Russell
Smith, Richard (22 March 1735–17 September 1803), lawyer, diarist, and member of the Continental Congress, was born in Burlington, New Jersey, the son of Richard Smith, a Quaker merchant and member of the colonial assembly, and Abigail Smith. Richard Smith’s older brother Samuel Smith...
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Strong, George Templeton (1820-1875), attorney and diarist
Judith K. Schafer
Strong, George Templeton (26 January 1820–21 July 1875), attorney and diarist, was born in New York City, the son of George Washington Strong, one of the most prominent attorneys in Manhattan, and Eliza Catherine Templeton. He graduated from Columbia College in 1838 and began reading law as a clerk in his father’s law office. Strong would have preferred a career in teaching or journalism, but his father encouraged him to become a practicing attorney, and in 1844 he became a counselor-at-law and a partner in his father’s firm, where he specialized in real estate and probate law. Although he was interested in legal and constitutional issues, the mechanics of law irritated and bored him. He complained in his diary that he feared being “swallowed up in a kind of snowbank of mortgages, subpoenas, depositions and polyonymous botherations.” In 1848 he married Ellen Ruggles, with whom he had three children. In 1853 he became a trustee of Columbia College. He argued for modernization of its curriculum and was a founder of the Columbia School of Law....
