Re: Cgus> [Fwd: Famous Men Who Served As Lawyers Without Going to Law School] Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:13:34 EDT From: BRADMARINA@aol.com To: charles@constitutionalgov.us Hi! Law schools were not in existence then. People who wanted to be Counsellors-at-Law studied under another Counsellor-at-Law for a certain period of time in order to qualify to be admitted (not licensed) by a State Supreme Judicial Court, for example, Hannibal Hamlin from Paris, Maine, who was Lincoln's first Vice President, never attended Law school. Thank you! Lise from Maine ******************************************* charles@constitutionalgov.us sent: -------- Original Message --------Subject: Famous Men Who Served As Lawyers Without Going to Law School Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:15:20 -0500 From: Gina de Miranda To: 'team@coppercards.com' 13 FAMOUS AMERICAN LAWYERS ALL BUT ONE NEVER WENT TO LAW SCHOOL 1. Patrick Henry (1736-1799), member of the Continental Congress, governor of Virginia 2. John Jay (1745-1829), first chief justice of the Supreme Court 3. John Marshall (1755-1835), chief justice of the Supreme Court 4. William Wirt (1772-1834), attorney general 5. Roger B. Taney (1777-1864), secretary of the treasury, chief justice of the Supreme Court 6. Daniel Webster (1782-1852), secretary of state 7. Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873), senator, chief justice of the Supreme Court 8. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), president 9. Stephen Douglas (1813-1861), representative, senator from Illinois 10. Clarence Darrow (1857-1938), defense attorney in Scopes trial of 1925. [While Clarence Darrow attended a law school for one year, he did not distinguish himself and preferred to study law on his own. He received the greater part of his education in a law office in Youngstown, Ohio.] 11. Robert Storey (b. 1893), president of the American Bar Association (1952-1953) 12. J. Strom Thurmond (b. 1902), senator, governor of South Carolina 13. James O. Eastland (b. 1904), senator from Mississippi Wallechinsky, David, "The Book of Lists," 1977 Clarence Darrow, did go to law school for one year before he quit. He became the most famous. Hmmmm....maybe it does pay to go to law school.