biography
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Carter, James Coolidge
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| male
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| lived:
| (1827–1905)
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| biography:
| Lawyer, born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, USA. Throughout 52 years with Davies & Scudder in New York, he defended the evolution of common law, and in 1871 helped prosecute ‘Boss’ Tweed. A founder, and for nine years president, of the National Municipal League, and a president of the American Bar Association, he was US chief counsel in the Bering Sea controversy (1893). |
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