Lawyers, the Law Trained, and Poetry
Index-Misc.
Presidents of the United States
John Quincy Adams
Sixth President of the U.S., 1825-1829
Abraham Lincoln
Civil War President, U.S., 1860-1865
Supreme Court Justices
Henry Brockholst Livingston
Associate Justice, 1806-1823
Joseph Story
Associate Justice, 1811-1845
Salmon P. Chase
Chief Justice, 1864-1873
Melville Weston Fuller
Chief Justice, 1888-1910
U.S. Attorney General
William Bradford
(1794-1795)
William Wirt
1817-1829
Caleb Cushing
1853-1857
State Attorney-General
William Bradford
Pennsylvania, appointed 1780
John Hickman
Pennsylvania
John Robertson
Virginia, 1823-1834
Richard Henry Wilde
Georgia's First Attorney-General, 1811-1813
Ellis Lewis
Pennsylvania, 1833
Alexander Beaufort Meek
Alabama
Peter Wagener Grayson
Texas, 1837 (Prior to annexation)
Robert Franklin Walker
Missouri, 1892-1897
William Rudolph Smith
Wisconsin, 1853
John Randolph
Tucker
Virginia, 1857-1865
Clarence Augustus
Buskirk
Indiana, 1874-1878
State Supreme Court Justices
Benjamin Pratt
(1710-1763)
New York
Peter Oliver
(1713-1791)
Massachusetts
Nathaniel Niles
(1741-1828)
Vermont
H. H. (Hugh Henry)
Brackenridge
(1748-1816)
Pennsylvania
John Trumbull
(1750-1831)
Connecticut
Royall Tyler
(1757-1826)
Vermont
Thomas Dawes
(1757-1825)
Massachusetts
Return Jonathan Meigs
(1764-1825)
Ohio (Chief Justice) & Louisiana
Prentiss Mellen
(1764-1840)
Maine
William Merchant
Richardson
(1774-1838)
New Hampshire (1816-1838)
Jesse Lynch Holman
(1783-1842)
Indiana (1816-1831)
Job Durfee
(1790-1847)
Rhode Island
William Bradford
(1791-1794)
Ellis Lewis
(1798-1871)
Pennsylvania (1854-1857)
Stephen Selwyn
Harding
(1808-1891)
Colorado (1863-1865)
Miles Tobey Granger
(1817-1895)
Connecticut (1876-1887)
James Valentine Campbell
(1823-1890)
Michigan
Thomas McIntyre Cooley
(1824-1898)
Michigan
Thomas Durfee
(1826-1901)
Logan Bleckley
(1827-1907)
Georgia
Daniel Bedinger Lucas
(1836-1909)
West Virginia
Henry Lamm
(1846-1926)
Missouri (1905-1916)
Alvin Peterson Hovey
(1821-1891)
Indiana (1854-1855)
Caleb Cushing
(1800-1879)
Massachusetts, 1852
Timothy
Edward Howard
(1837-1916)
Indiana (1893-1899)
John E. Richards
(1856-1932)
California
Wendell Phillips Stafford
(1861-1953)
Vermont
George Hamilton Ethridge
(1871-1957)
Mississippi (1917-1941)
William Franklin Jenkins
(1876-1961)
Georgia
Lemuel
Augustus Smith III
(1878-1950)
Mississippi
William A. Smith
(1870-1958)
Florence Ellinwood Allen
(1884-1966)
Ohio (1922-1934
Gregory J. Hobbs, Jr.
Colorado Supreme Court
U.S. Senators
John Quincy Adams
Massachusetts, 1802-1808
Allan B. Magruder
Kentucky, 1812-1813
Prentiss Mellen
Maine, 1818-1820
Salmon P. Chase
Ohio, 1849-1855
Robert M. Charlton
Georgia, 1852-1853
U.S. House of Representatives
Thomas Burke (ca. 1747-1783)
North Carolina/Continental Congress
Job Durfee (1790-1847)
Rhode Island
William Allen Butler
(1825-1902)
Kentucky
Armistead Burt (1802-1883)
South Carolina
Alfred W. Arrington
(1810-1867)
North Carolina
Henry Bedinger (1812-1858)
West Virginia
H.P.H. Bromwell (1823-1903)
Illinois
George W. Atkinson
(1845-1925)
West Virginia
Maurice H. Thatcher (1913-1923)
Kentucky
Harold Barnett McSween (1926-2002)
Louisiana
Governors
Roger Wolcott
Connecticut (1750-1754)
William Livingston
First Governor of New Jersey, 1776
Thomas Burke
Third Governor of North Carolina, 1781-1782
Alexander Martin
4th Governor of North Carolina, 1782-1785, 1789-1792
(served two terms)
Moody
Currier
Governor of New Hampshire, 1885-1887
Enoch Lincoln
Maine's third governor, 1827-1829
William George Crosby
Maine, 1853-54
Salmon P. Chase
Ohio, 1855-1859
John Albion Andrew
Massachusetts, 1860-1866
John Davis Long
Massachusetts, 1879-1883
Israel Washburn, Jr.
Maine, 1881-1882
Alvin Peterson Hovey
Indiana, 1888-1891
George W. Atkinson
West Virginia, 1896-1900
10th Governor of West Virginia
Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker
Pennsylvania (1903-1907)
John Cornwell
West Virginia, 1916-1920
Cabinet Members
Philip
Carrigan
Secretary of State
Samuel Dexter
Secretary of War (1801)
Secretary of the Treasury (1801)
John Quincy Adams
Secretary of State, 1817-1825
John Pendleton Kennedy
Secretary of the Navy, 1852-1853
Salmon P. Chase
Secretary of the Treasurer, 1861-1864
John
Davis Long
Secretary of Navy, 1897-1902
John Milton Hay
Secretary of State, 1898-1905
William Cohen
Secretary of Defense, 1997-2001
Confederate Generals
Henry Rootes Jackson
Georgia
(1820-1898)
William Read Scurry
(1821-1864)
Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb
(1823-1862)
Albert Pike
Arkansas
(1809-1891)
Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb
(1823-1862)
Edwin
Gray Lee
(1836-1870)
Basil W. Duke
(1837-1916)
Union Generals
Alvin
Peterson Hovey
Indiana
(1821-1891)
William Haines Lytle
Kentucky
(1826-1863)
African Americans
George Boyer Vashon
(1824-1878)
Robert Charles O'Hara
Benjamin
(1855-1900)
Samuel Alfred Beadle
(1857-1932)
Edwin Henry Hackley
(1859-1940)
James Weldon Johnson
(1871-1938)
William
Henry Huff
(1888- )
Mabel Rebecca Dole Haden
(1909-2007)
Pauli Murray
(1910-1985)
Samuel Washington Allen
(1917- )
Bruce McMarion Wright
(1918-2005)
Elreta Melton Alexander
(1919-1998)
K. Leroy Irvis
(1919-2006)
Gloria Catherine Oden
(1923-2012)
Alfred Bennett Spellman
(1935- )
Ebon Dooley
(1942-2006)
Karl Carter
(1944- )
Native Americans
John Rollin Ridge
(1827-1867)
Dewitt
Clinton Duncan
(1829-1909)
William Penn Boudinot
(1830-1896)
Richard Calmit Adams
(1864-1921)
Frank Pommersheim
(1947 ? - )
Steve Russell
(1947- )
Susan Power
(1961- )
Women
Clara Hosmer Hapgood Nash
(1839- )
Mary Hall
(1843-1927)
Lettie Lavilla Burlingame
(1859-1890)
Lillian Blanche Fearing
(1863-1901)
Adele
Ida Storck
(ca. 1874-1960)
Lillian Ruth Wiles
(ca. 1875- )
Ila Earle Fowler
(1876-1963)
Florence Ellinwood Allen
(1884-1966)
Anne
Marie Evans
(1886- )
Abby Crawford Milton
(1886-1990)
Flora Warren Seymour
(1888-1948)
Florence
Meigs Beebe
(1889-1973)
Edwardine Crenshaw Couch
(1894-1972)
Elizabeth Cody
Johnson
(1895-1979)
Mabel Rebecca Dole Haden
(1909-2007)
Pauli Murray
(1910-1985)
Louise
Blackmar Hart
(1911- )
Janet Oline Hart Diebold
(1917-1987)
(Leola) Lee Ellen Ford
(1917-1997)
Elreta Melton Alexander
(1919-1998)
Gloria
Catherine Oden
(1923-2012)
Kathleen Bogan
(1947-2000)
Law Professors
George Wythe
(1726-1806)
College of William and Mary
St. George Tucker
(1752-1828)
College of William and Mary
Royall Tyler
(1757-1826)
University of Vermont
Henry St. George Tucker
(1780-1848)
University of Virginia
Nathaniel Beverley
Tucker
(1784-1851)
William and Mary College of Law
Richard Henry Wilde
(1789-1847)
University of Louisiana at New Orleans
William Betts
(1802-1884)
Columbia University
Edward John Phelps
(1822-1900)
Yale University
James Valentine Campbell
(1823-1890)
University of Michigan
Thomas McIntyre Cooley
(1824-1898)
University of Michigan
George Vaughn Strong
(1827-1897)
(private law school)
Francis Miles Finch
(1827-1907)
Cornell University
(Dean of the College of Law, 1892)
Irving Browne
(1835-1899)
Albany Law School
Timothy Edward Howard
(1837-1916)
Edward Robeson Taylor
(1838-1923)
Hastings College of Law, Dean
Bellamy Storer
(1798-1875)
Cincinnati Law School
(from 1855 to 1874)
Harry J. Chapman
(1856- )
University of Maine
(1902- )
James Stanislaus Easby-Smith
(1870- )
Georgetown
Bartlett Brooks
(1875-1918)
University of Maine
H. Gerald Chapin
(1875-1920)
Fordham University
(1905-1920)
Henry Wilbur Humble
(1883-1941)
University of Kansas
Brookings Law School
Thomas Reed Powell
(1880-1955)
Columbia University
Harvard Law School
James
Grafton Rogers
(1883-1971)
Dean, University of Colorado
Karl Llewellyn
(1893-1962)
Columbia University
University of Chicago
L.D. Covitt
(1905- )
University of Louisville
Dean, Miami Law School
Fred Rodell
(1907-1980)
Yale Law School
Anton-Herman
Chroust
(1907-1982)
University of Notre Dame
(from 1946 to 1972)
Luis Kutner
(1908-1993)
Visting Associate Professor
Yale University
Robert Kratovil
(1910-1989)
DePaul Law School
Howard
L. Oleck
(1911-1995)
New York Law School
Cleveland State University Law School
(also Wake Forest & Stetson)
Brainerd
Currie
(1912-1965)
Charles Black
(1915-2001)
Yale University Law School
Harold Norris
(1918-2013 )
Detroit College of Law
Daniel G. MacLeod
(1924-1997)
Boston University
Hayward D. Reynolds
(1930-2020)
Capital University
Orlando E. Delogu
(1937- )
University of Maine
Paul Rice
(1943- )
American University
Lawrence Joseph
(1948- )
St. John's University
Frank Pommersheim
(1943- )
South Dakota
R. Perry Sentell, Jr.
University of Georgia
Susan Abraham
(1955- )
New York Law School
Gregory Shaffer
(1958- )
University of Wisconsin
Susan Abraham
New York Law School
Laura Appleman
Williamette University
Barbara Atwood
University of Arizona
Richard S. Bank
Villanova Law School (adjunct)
Anita Bernstein
Emory University
Michael Blumenthal
(1949- )
West Virginia University
Robert Boliek
Cumberland School of Law
Samford University
Cynthia Bond
John Marshall Law School
Arthur Campbell
California Western University
Jo Carrillo
Hastings College of Law
Richard Craswell
University of Southern California
David Crump
University of Houston
Kate Nace Day
Suffolk University
Orlando Delogu
University of Maine
David R. Dowd
University of Houston
Richard Falk
Princeton University (emeritus)
Michele Goodwin
DePaul University
Ronald C. Griffin
Washburn University
David Hall
Northeastern University School of Law
Jerome Hoffman
University of Alabama School of Law (emeritus)
James R. Holbrook
University of Utah
Randy Lee
Widener University School of Law
Samuel G. Magavern
University of Buffalo Law School
Betsy McKenzie
Suffolk University Law School
Mary Margaret Penrose
University of Oklahoma College of Law
Robert Rains
Dickinson School of Law, Penn State University
Gary S. Rosin
South Texas College of Law
Ruthann Robson
City University of New York's Queens College of Law
Antoinette Sedillo Lopez
University of New Mexico
William Shutkin
Boston College Law School (adjunct)
Kevin Smith
University of Memphis
Maxwell L. Stearns
George Mason University School of Law
John Teeter, Jr.
St. Mary's University
Saul Touster
(1925-2018)
Brandeis University
Sandra Del Valle
CUNY Law School
Manning G. Warren III
University of Louisville
English
Professors
Michael Blumenthal
John William Corrington
(1932-1988)
Martín Espada
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Theodora Goss
Boston University
Vanessa Kittle
Mary Leader
Purdue University
Brad Leithauser
James Liddy
(1934-2008)
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Evie Shockley
Rutgers University
Marcus A.J. Smith
Loyola University-New Orleans
Michael Sowder
Utah State University
Richard Taylor
Kentucky State University
Physicians
Thomas Dale
(1700-1750)
Thomas Burke
(1747-1783)
Daniel Stebbins
(1766-1853)
Benjamin Faneuil Porter
(1808-1868)
Jonathan W. Gordon
(1820-1887)
George D. Prentice
(1802-1870)
Thomas Dunn English
(1819-1902)
Edward Robeson Taylor
(1838-1923)
Frank Cowan
(1844-1905)
Francis Brooks
(1867-1889)
Dentists
Ernest Fenwick Johnstone
(1867-1938)
Pharmacists
William Henry Huff
(1888-1963)
Eli Greifer
(1902-1966)
Electrical Engineers
George Herbert Stockbridge
(1852-1916)
Ministers
Nathaniel Niles
(1741-1828)
Hugh Henry Brackenridge
(1748-1816)
Joel Barlow
(1755-1812)
Micah P. Flint
(1807-1830)
Alfred W. Arrington
(1810-1867)
Donn Piatt
(1819-1891)
George
Douglas Brewerton
(1820-1901)
William Walton Hoskins
(1856-1910?)
Masons
Alexander Martin
(1740-1807)
Thomas Kennedy
(1776-1832)
Francis Scott Key
(1779-1843)
William Rudolph Smith
(1787-1868)
Moses
Brooks
(1789-1869)
George Mifflin Dallas
(1792-1864)
Benjamin Brown French
(1800-1870)
Salathiel C. Coffinberry
(1809-1889)
Albert Pike
(1809-1891)
George W. Snow
(1809-1900)
David Barker
(1816-1874)
Henry Pelham Holmes Bromwell
(1823-1903)
Henry Oakes Kent
(1834-1909)
Tim Needham
(1842- )
Wallace Bruce
(1844-1914)
Orla Samuel Casad
(1846-1928)
John Scollay
(1847-1890)
Fay Hempstead
(1847-1934)
Poet Laureate of Masonry
John Vance Cheney
(1848-1922)
Nelson Williams
(1852-1934)
Henry Wayland
Hill
(1853-1929)
George Grant
(1852-1942)
Franklin D. Hale
(1854-1940)
John E. Richards
(1856-1932)
Thomas
Emmet Dewey
(1859-1906)
Henry Polk Lowenstein
(1859-1946)
James Melmouth Hickman
(1862-1938)
Miles Menander Dawson
(1863-1942)
Joseph E. Acker
(1863-1947)
Harry Elliott Negley
(1866- )
Claybron W. Merriweather
(1869-1952)
Jacob Gedaliah Grossberg
(1870-1950)
Maurice H. Thatcher
(1870-1973)
George
Hamilton Ethridge
(1871-1957)
Arthur Orison
Dillon
(1873- )
Walter H. Bonn
(1877-1950)
Abraham Felt
(1881-1957)
Cowboys
Carlos Ashley
(1904-1993)
Duelists
Henry Brockholst Livingston
(1757-1823)
Humphrey Marshall
(1760-1841)
Alexander Keith McClung
(1811-1855)
Philippe Régis Dénis de Keredern de Trobriand
(1816-1897)
B.F. Washington
(1820-1872)
James Barron Hope
(1829-1887)
Edward Coote Pinkney
(1802-1828)
Alfred W. Arrington
(1810-1867)
Rug Collectors
William DeLancey Ellwanger
(1854-1913)
Poet Laureates
Ebenezer Cooke
(1667-1732)
Colony of Maryland
William Gilmore Simms
(1806-1870)
Poet Laureate of South Carolina
Rob Morris
(1818-1888)
Poet Laureate of Masonry
Coates Kinney
(1826-1904)
Poet Laureate of Ohio
John Steven McGroarty
(1862-1944)
Poet Laureate of California
(1933-1944)
J. T. Cotton Noe
(1864-1953)
Poet Laureate of Kentucky
Thomas
Lomax Hunter
(1875-1948)
Poet Laureate of Virginia, 1948
Edward G. Hill (1883- )
Poet Laureate of Kentucky, 1928
Emory Aaron Richardson
(1886-1965)
Poet Laureate of Indiana
Leigh Buckner Hanes
(1894-1967)
Poet Laureate of Virginia, 1949
Corbin A. Waldron
(1920-1977)
Poet Laureate of North Dakota
Richard L. Taylor
Poet Laureate of Kentucky, 1999-2001
University Presidents
William Russell Smith
(1815-1896)
Painters
James Naumburg Rosenberg
(1874-1970)
Frank Kleinholz
(1901-1987)
Blind
Lillien Blanche Fearing (1863-1901)
John D.W. Bodfish (1878-1956)

Strangers to Us All
Alphabetical Index
State Index
Chronological Index
Contemporary Lawyer Poets: A-K
Contemporary Lawyer Poets: M-Z
About Poetry
Strangers to Us All—Homepage