Matches in Harvard for { ?s ?p Lawyer and historian. Educated at Harvard (A.B., 1889, L.L.B.,1892). Practiced law in Boston (1892-1893, 1894-1914). Private secretary to Governor William E. Russell of Massachusetts (1893-1894) and active in the Democratic Party in Massachusetts. A founder and secretary (1894-1897) of the Immigration Restriction League, Chairman of the Massachusetts Civil Service Commission (1905-1911). Assistant attorney general of The United States (1914-1918). Practiced law in Washington, D.C. after 1918. Served as the American member of the Trail Smelter International Arbitral Tribunal to settle a dispute between the United States and Canada, 1936. Author of numerous books including a volume of short stories, The Girl and the Governor (1900) and The Supreme Court in United States History (3 v., 1922), which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1923. President of the Harvard Alumni Association (1941-1942). See sketch in Dictionary of American Biography.. }
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- catalog description "Lawyer and historian. Educated at Harvard (A.B., 1889, L.L.B.,1892). Practiced law in Boston (1892-1893, 1894-1914). Private secretary to Governor William E. Russell of Massachusetts (1893-1894) and active in the Democratic Party in Massachusetts. A founder and secretary (1894-1897) of the Immigration Restriction League, Chairman of the Massachusetts Civil Service Commission (1905-1911). Assistant attorney general of The United States (1914-1918). Practiced law in Washington, D.C. after 1918. Served as the American member of the Trail Smelter International Arbitral Tribunal to settle a dispute between the United States and Canada, 1936. Author of numerous books including a volume of short stories, The Girl and the Governor (1900) and The Supreme Court in United States History (3 v., 1922), which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1923. President of the Harvard Alumni Association (1941-1942). See sketch in Dictionary of American Biography.".