biography
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| (1826–1904)
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| biography:
| Lawyer and educator, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, the son of Francis Wayland (1796–1865). He studied at Harvard Law School and became a lawyer in Massachusetts and Connecticut. As dean of Yale Law School (1873–1903), he revitalized and expanded the school and introduced the first American graduate law degrees. |
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