Chafee, Zechariah, 1885-1957

Born December 7, 1885 ; died February 8, 1957 ; spoke English ; lived in Boston, New Providence, Cambridge ; Male ; nationality Americans ; occuptations: Professor, Scholars, Philosophers, Civil rights, activists ; born in Providence, Rhode Island ; graduated from Brown University ; member of 1907 Alpha Delta Phi ; received a law degree from Harvard University ; LL.B. in 1913 ; influenced by sociological Jurisprudence by Roscoe Pound and others at Harvard ; met Harold J. Laski political scientist and leader of the United Kingdom's Labour Party ; practiced at law firm Tillinghast and Collins 1913–1916 ; joined Harvard Law School as assistant professor in 1916 ; promoted to full professor in 1919 ; appointed Langdell Professor of Law in 1938 and university professor in 1950 ; remained at Harvard Law School until 1956 ; authority on equity, interpleader, negotiable instruments, and unfair business competition ; Chafee drafted the Federal Interpleader Act of 1936 (49 Stat. 1096) ; became expert on congressional apportionment ; helped apportion seats in United States House of Representatives based on 1930, 1940 and 1950 censuses ; 1920 one of twelve lawyers reporting on illegal activities of Department of Justice ; nearly lost job in 1921 ; brought before the Harvard Board of Overseers on charge of radicalism for questioning sentence handed down in Abrams v. United States 250 U.S. 616 (1919) ; defended himself before special committee in the Harvard Club of Boston ; allowed to remain at the law school ; 1929-1931 consultant to National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (Wickersham Commission) ; co-authored report on lawlessness in law enforcement 1931 ; Lowell Television Lecturer for the 1956-1957 academic year ; finished 16 lecture television series "The Constitution and Human Rights", adaptation of general education course he developed 1950 on WGBH ; Chafee received honorary degrees ; 1936 Doctor of Law from St. John's University ; 1937 Brown University ; 1953 University of Chicago ; 1941 Doctor of Civil Law from Boston University ; 1944 Doctor of Letters from Colby College ; Fellow at Brown University ; member of American Philosophical Society ; American Bar Association ; Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; Massachusetts Historical Society ; Alpha Delta Phi ; Phi Beta Kappa ; Harvard Club of Boston ; the Tavern Club (of Boston) ; Century Association.

Born December 7, 1885 ; died February 8, 1957 ; spoke English ; lived in Boston, New Providence, Cambridge ; Male ; nationality Americans ; occuptations: Professor, Scholars, Philosophers, Civil rights, activists ; born in Providence, Rhode Island ; graduated from Brown University ; member of 1907 Alpha Delta Phi ; received a law degree from Harvard University ; LL.B. in 1913 ; influenced by sociological Jurisprudence by Roscoe Pound and others at Harvard ; met Harold J. Laski political scientist and leader of the United Kingdom's Labour Party ; practiced at law firm Tillinghast and Collins 1913–1916 ; joined Harvard Law School as assistant professor in 1916 ; promoted to full professor in 1919 ; appointed Langdell Professor of Law in 1938 and university professor in 1950 ; remained at Harvard Law School until 1956 ; authority on equity, interpleader, negotiable instruments, and unfair business competition ; Chafee drafted the Federal Interpleader Act of 1936 (49 Stat. 1096) ; became expert on congressional apportionment ; helped apportion seats in United States House of Representatives based on 1930, 1940 and 1950 censuses ; 1920 one of twelve lawyers reporting on illegal activities of Department of Justice ; nearly lost job in 1921 ; brought before the Harvard Board of Overseers on charge of radicalism for questioning sentence handed down in Abrams v. United States 250 U.S. 616 (1919) ; defended himself before special committee in the Harvard Club of Boston ; allowed to remain at the law school ; 1929-1931 consultant to National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (Wickersham Commission) ; co-authored report on lawlessness in law enforcement 1931 ; Lowell Television Lecturer for the 1956-1957 academic year ; finished 16 lecture television series "The Constitution and Human Rights", adaptation of general education course he developed 1950 on WGBH ; Chafee received honorary degrees ; 1936 Doctor of Law from St. John's University ; 1937 Brown University ; 1953 University of Chicago ; 1941 Doctor of Civil Law from Boston University ; 1944 Doctor of Letters from Colby College ; Fellow at Brown University ; member of American Philosophical Society ; American Bar Association ; Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; Massachusetts Historical Society ; Alpha Delta Phi ; Phi Beta Kappa ; Harvard Club of Boston ; the Tavern Club (of Boston) ; Century Association.

Born December 7, 1885 ; died February 8, 1957 ; spoke English ; lived in Boston, New Providence, Cambridge ; Male ; nationality Americans ; occuptations: Professor, Scholars, Philosophers, Civil rights, activists ; born in Providence, Rhode Island ; graduated from Brown University ; member of 1907 Alpha Delta Phi ; received a law degree from Harvard University ; LL.B. in 1913 ; influenced by sociological Jurisprudence by Roscoe Pound and others at Harvard ; met Harold J. Laski political scientist and leader of the United Kingdom's Labour Party ; practiced at law firm Tillinghast and Collins 1913–1916 ; joined Harvard Law School as assistant professor in 1916 ; promoted to full professor in 1919 ; appointed Langdell Professor of Law in 1938 and university professor in 1950 ; remained at Harvard Law School until 1956 ; authority on equity, interpleader, negotiable instruments, and unfair business competition ; Chafee drafted the Federal Interpleader Act of 1936 (49 Stat. 1096) ; became expert on congressional apportionment ; helped apportion seats in United States House of Representatives based on 1930, 1940 and 1950 censuses ; 1920 one of twelve lawyers reporting on illegal activities of Department of Justice ; nearly lost job in 1921 ; brought before the Harvard Board of Overseers on charge of radicalism for questioning sentence handed down in Abrams v. United States 250 U.S. 616 (1919) ; defended himself before special committee in the Harvard Club of Boston ; allowed to remain at the law school ; 1929-1931 consultant to National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (Wickersham Commission) ; co-authored report on lawlessness in law enforcement 1931 ; Lowell Television Lecturer for the 1956-1957 academic year ; finished 16 lecture television series "The Constitution and Human Rights", adaptation of general education course he developed 1950 on WGBH ; Chafee received honorary degrees ; 1936 Doctor of Law from St. John's University ; 1937 Brown University ; 1953 University of Chicago ; 1941 Doctor of Civil Law from Boston University ; 1944 Doctor of Letters from Colby College ; Fellow at Brown University ; member of American Philosophical Society ; American Bar Association ; Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; Massachusetts Historical Society ; Alpha Delta Phi ; Phi Beta Kappa ; Harvard Club of Boston ; the Tavern Club (of Boston) ; Century Association.

Born December 7, 1885 ; died February 8, 1957 ; spoke English ; lived in Boston, New Providence, Cambridge ; Male ; nationality Americans ; occuptations: Professor, Scholars, Philosophers, Civil rights, activists ; born in Providence, Rhode Island ; graduated from Brown University ; member of 1907 Alpha Delta Phi ; received a law degree from Harvard University ; LL.B. in 1913 ; influenced by sociological Jurisprudence by Roscoe Pound and others at Harvard ; met Harold J. Laski political scientist and leader of the United Kingdom's Labour Party ; practiced at law firm Tillinghast and Collins 1913–1916 ; joined Harvard Law School as assistant professor in 1916 ; promoted to full professor in 1919 ; appointed Langdell Professor of Law in 1938 and university professor in 1950 ; remained at Harvard Law School until 1956 ; authority on equity, interpleader, negotiable instruments, and unfair business competition ; Chafee drafted the Federal Interpleader Act of 1936 (49 Stat. 1096) ; became expert on congressional apportionment ; helped apportion seats in United States House of Representatives based on 1930, 1940 and 1950 censuses ; 1920 one of twelve lawyers reporting on illegal activities of Department of Justice ; nearly lost job in 1921 ; brought before the Harvard Board of Overseers on charge of radicalism for questioning sentence handed down in Abrams v. United States 250 U.S. 616 (1919) ; defended himself before special committee in the Harvard Club of Boston ; allowed to remain at the law school ; 1929-1931 consultant to National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (Wickersham Commission) ; co-authored report on lawlessness in law enforcement 1931 ; Lowell Television Lecturer for the 1956-1957 academic year ; finished 16 lecture television series "The Constitution and Human Rights", adaptation of general education course he developed 1950 on WGBH ; Chafee received honorary degrees ; 1936 Doctor of Law from St. John's University ; 1937 Brown University ; 1953 University of Chicago ; 1941 Doctor of Civil Law from Boston University ; 1944 Doctor of Letters from Colby College ; Fellow at Brown University ; member of American Philosophical Society ; American Bar Association ; Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; Massachusetts Historical Society ; Alpha Delta Phi ; Phi Beta Kappa ; Harvard Club of Boston ; the Tavern Club (of Boston) ; Century Association.

Born December 7, 1885 ; died February 8, 1957 ; spoke English ; lived in Boston, New Providence, Cambridge ; Male ; nationality Americans ; occuptations: Professor, Scholars, Philosophers, Civil rights, activists ; born in Providence, Rhode Island ; graduated from Brown University ; member of 1907 Alpha Delta Phi ; received a law degree from Harvard University ; LL.B. in 1913 ; influenced by sociological Jurisprudence by Roscoe Pound and others at Harvard ; met Harold J. Laski political scientist and leader of the United Kingdom's Labour Party ; practiced at law firm Tillinghast and Collins 1913–1916 ; joined Harvard Law School as assistant professor in 1916 ; promoted to full professor in 1919 ; appointed Langdell Professor of Law in 1938 and university professor in 1950 ; remained at Harvard Law School until 1956 ; authority on equity, interpleader, negotiable instruments, and unfair business competition ; Chafee drafted the Federal Interpleader Act of 1936 (49 Stat. 1096) ; became expert on congressional apportionment ; helped apportion seats in United States House of Representatives based on 1930, 1940 and 1950 censuses ; 1920 one of twelve lawyers reporting on illegal activities of Department of Justice ; nearly lost job in 1921 ; brought before the Harvard Board of Overseers on charge of radicalism for questioning sentence handed down in Abrams v. United States 250 U.S. 616 (1919) ; defended himself before special committee in the Harvard Club of Boston ; allowed to remain at the law school ; 1929-1931 consultant to National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (Wickersham Commission) ; co-authored report on lawlessness in law enforcement 1931 ; Lowell Television Lecturer for the 1956-1957 academic year ; finished 16 lecture television series "The Constitution and Human Rights", adaptation of general education course he developed 1950 on WGBH ; Chafee received honorary degrees ; 1936 Doctor of Law from St. John's University ; 1937 Brown University ; 1953 University of Chicago ; 1941 Doctor of Civil Law from Boston University ; 1944 Doctor of Letters from Colby College ; Fellow at Brown University ; member of American Philosophical Society ; American Bar Association ; Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; Massachusetts Historical Society ; Alpha Delta Phi ; Phi Beta Kappa ; Harvard Club of Boston ; the Tavern Club (of Boston) ; Century Association.

Born December 7, 1885 ; died February 8, 1957 ; spoke English ; lived in Boston, New Providence, Cambridge ; Male ; nationality Americans ; occuptations: Professor, Scholars, Philosophers, Civil rights, activists ; born in Providence, Rhode Island ; graduated from Brown University ; member of 1907 Alpha Delta Phi ; received a law degree from Harvard University ; LL.B. in 1913 ; influenced by sociological Jurisprudence by Roscoe Pound and others at Harvard ; met Harold J. Laski political scientist and leader of the United Kingdom's Labour Party ; practiced at law firm Tillinghast and Collins 1913–1916 ; joined Harvard Law School as assistant professor in 1916 ; promoted to full professor in 1919 ; appointed Langdell Professor of Law in 1938 and university professor in 1950 ; remained at Harvard Law School until 1956 ; authority on equity, interpleader, negotiable instruments, and unfair business competition ; Chafee drafted the Federal Interpleader Act of 1936 (49 Stat. 1096) ; became expert on congressional apportionment ; helped apportion seats in United States House of Representatives based on 1930, 1940 and 1950 censuses ; 1920 one of twelve lawyers reporting on illegal activities of Department of Justice ; nearly lost job in 1921 ; brought before the Harvard Board of Overseers on charge of radicalism for questioning sentence handed down in Abrams v. United States 250 U.S. 616 (1919) ; defended himself before special committee in the Harvard Club of Boston ; allowed to remain at the law school ; 1929-1931 consultant to National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (Wickersham Commission) ; co-authored report on lawlessness in law enforcement 1931 ; Lowell Television Lecturer for the 1956-1957 academic year ; finished 16 lecture television series "The Constitution and Human Rights", adaptation of general education course he developed 1950 on WGBH ; Chafee received honorary degrees ; 1936 Doctor of Law from St. John's University ; 1937 Brown University ; 1953 University of Chicago ; 1941 Doctor of Civil Law from Boston University ; 1944 Doctor of Letters from Colby College ; Fellow at Brown University ; member of American Philosophical Society ; American Bar Association ; Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; Massachusetts Historical Society ; Alpha Delta Phi ; Phi Beta Kappa ; Harvard Club of Boston ; the Tavern Club (of Boston) ; Century Association.

Born December 7, 1885 ; died February 8, 1957 ; spoke English ; lived in Boston, New Providence, Cambridge ; Male ; nationality Americans ; occuptations: Professor, Scholars, Philosophers, Civil rights, activists ; born in Providence, Rhode Island ; graduated from Brown University ; member of 1907 Alpha Delta Phi ; received a law degree from Harvard University ; LL.B. in 1913 ; influenced by sociological Jurisprudence by Roscoe Pound and others at Harvard ; met Harold J. Laski political scientist and leader of the United Kingdom's Labour Party ; practiced at law firm Tillinghast and Collins 1913–1916 ; joined Harvard Law School as assistant professor in 1916 ; promoted to full professor in 1919 ; appointed Langdell Professor of Law in 1938 and university professor in 1950 ; remained at Harvard Law School until 1956 ; authority on equity, interpleader, negotiable instruments, and unfair business competition ; Chafee drafted the Federal Interpleader Act of 1936 (49 Stat. 1096) ; became expert on congressional apportionment ; helped apportion seats in United States House of Representatives based on 1930, 1940 and 1950 censuses ; 1920 one of twelve lawyers reporting on illegal activities of Department of Justice ; nearly lost job in 1921 ; brought before the Harvard Board of Overseers on charge of radicalism for questioning sentence handed down in Abrams v. United States 250 U.S. 616 (1919) ; defended himself before special committee in the Harvard Club of Boston ; allowed to remain at the law school ; 1929-1931 consultant to National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (Wickersham Commission) ; co-authored report on lawlessness in law enforcement 1931 ; Lowell Television Lecturer for the 1956-1957 academic year ; finished 16 lecture television series "The Constitution and Human Rights", adaptation of general education course he developed 1950 on WGBH ; Chafee received honorary degrees ; 1936 Doctor of Law from St. John's University ; 1937 Brown University ; 1953 University of Chicago ; 1941 Doctor of Civil Law from Boston University ; 1944 Doctor of Letters from Colby College ; Fellow at Brown University ; member of American Philosophical Society ; American Bar Association ; Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; Massachusetts Historical Society ; Alpha Delta Phi ; Phi Beta Kappa ; Harvard Club of Boston ; the Tavern Club (of Boston) ; Century Association.

Born December 7, 1885 ; died February 8, 1957 ; spoke English ; lived in Boston, New Providence, Cambridge ; Male ; nationality Americans ; occuptations: Professor, Scholars, Philosophers, Civil rights, activists ; born in Providence, Rhode Island ; graduated from Brown University ; member of 1907 Alpha Delta Phi ; received a law degree from Harvard University ; LL.B. in 1913 ; influenced by sociological Jurisprudence by Roscoe Pound and others at Harvard ; met Harold J. Laski political scientist and leader of the United Kingdom's Labour Party ; practiced at law firm Tillinghast and Collins 1913–1916 ; joined Harvard Law School as assistant professor in 1916 ; promoted to full professor in 1919 ; appointed Langdell Professor of Law in 1938 and university professor in 1950 ; remained at Harvard Law School until 1956 ; authority on equity, interpleader, negotiable instruments, and unfair business competition ; Chafee drafted the Federal Interpleader Act of 1936 (49 Stat. 1096) ; became expert on congressional apportionment ; helped apportion seats in United States House of Representatives based on 1930, 1940 and 1950 censuses ; 1920 one of twelve lawyers reporting on illegal activities of Department of Justice ; nearly lost job in 1921 ; brought before the Harvard Board of Overseers on charge of radicalism for questioning sentence handed down in Abrams v. United States 250 U.S. 616 (1919) ; defended himself before special committee in the Harvard Club of Boston ; allowed to remain at the law school ; 1929-1931 consultant to National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (Wickersham Commission) ; co-authored report on lawlessness in law enforcement 1931 ; Lowell Television Lecturer for the 1956-1957 academic year ; finished 16 lecture television series "The Constitution and Human Rights", adaptation of general education course he developed 1950 on WGBH ; Chafee received honorary degrees ; 1936 Doctor of Law from St. John's University ; 1937 Brown University ; 1953 University of Chicago ; 1941 Doctor of Civil Law from Boston University ; 1944 Doctor of Letters from Colby College ; Fellow at Brown University ; member of American Philosophical Society ; American Bar Association ; Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; Massachusetts Historical Society ; Alpha Delta Phi ; Phi Beta Kappa ; Harvard Club of Boston ; the Tavern Club (of Boston) ; Century Association.

Born December 7, 1885 ; died February 8, 1957 ; spoke English ; lived in Boston, New Providence, Cambridge ; Male ; nationality Americans ; occuptations: Professor, Scholars, Philosophers, Civil rights, activists ; born in Providence, Rhode Island ; graduated from Brown University ; member of 1907 Alpha Delta Phi ; received a law degree from Harvard University ; LL.B. in 1913 ; influenced by sociological Jurisprudence by Roscoe Pound and others at Harvard ; met Harold J. Laski political scientist and leader of the United Kingdom's Labour Party ; practiced at law firm Tillinghast and Collins 1913–1916 ; joined Harvard Law School as assistant professor in 1916 ; promoted to full professor in 1919 ; appointed Langdell Professor of Law in 1938 and university professor in 1950 ; remained at Harvard Law School until 1956 ; authority on equity, interpleader, negotiable instruments, and unfair business competition ; Chafee drafted the Federal Interpleader Act of 1936 (49 Stat. 1096) ; became expert on congressional apportionment ; helped apportion seats in United States House of Representatives based on 1930, 1940 and 1950 censuses ; 1920 one of twelve lawyers reporting on illegal activities of Department of Justice ; nearly lost job in 1921 ; brought before the Harvard Board of Overseers on charge of radicalism for questioning sentence handed down in Abrams v. United States 250 U.S. 616 (1919) ; defended himself before special committee in the Harvard Club of Boston ; allowed to remain at the law school ; 1929-1931 consultant to National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (Wickersham Commission) ; co-authored report on lawlessness in law enforcement 1931 ; Lowell Television Lecturer for the 1956-1957 academic year ; finished 16 lecture television series "The Constitution and Human Rights", adaptation of general education course he developed 1950 on WGBH ; Chafee received honorary degrees ; 1936 Doctor of Law from St. John's University ; 1937 Brown University ; 1953 University of Chicago ; 1941 Doctor of Civil Law from Boston University ; 1944 Doctor of Letters from Colby College ; Fellow at Brown University ; member of American Philosophical Society ; American Bar Association ; Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; Massachusetts Historical Society ; Alpha Delta Phi ; Phi Beta Kappa ; Harvard Club of Boston ; the Tavern Club (of Boston) ; Century Association.

Born December 7, 1885 ; died February 8, 1957 ; spoke English ; lived in Boston, New Providence, Cambridge ; Male ; nationality Americans ; occuptations: Professor, Scholars, Philosophers, Civil rights, activists ; born in Providence, Rhode Island ; graduated from Brown University ; member of 1907 Alpha Delta Phi ; received a law degree from Harvard University ; LL.B. in 1913 ; influenced by sociological Jurisprudence by Roscoe Pound and others at Harvard ; met Harold J. Laski political scientist and leader of the United Kingdom's Labour Party ; practiced at law firm Tillinghast and Collins 1913–1916 ; joined Harvard Law School as assistant professor in 1916 ; promoted to full professor in 1919 ; appointed Langdell Professor of Law in 1938 and university professor in 1950 ; remained at Harvard Law School until 1956 ; authority on equity, interpleader, negotiable instruments, and unfair business competition ; Chafee drafted the Federal Interpleader Act of 1936 (49 Stat. 1096) ; became expert on congressional apportionment ; helped apportion seats in United States House of Representatives based on 1930, 1940 and 1950 censuses ; 1920 one of twelve lawyers reporting on illegal activities of Department of Justice ; nearly lost job in 1921 ; brought before the Harvard Board of Overseers on charge of radicalism for questioning sentence handed down in Abrams v. United States 250 U.S. 616 (1919) ; defended himself before special committee in the Harvard Club of Boston ; allowed to remain at the law school ; 1929-1931 consultant to National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement (Wickersham Commission) ; co-authored report on lawlessness in law enforcement 1931 ; Lowell Television Lecturer for the 1956-1957 academic year ; finished 16 lecture television series "The Constitution and Human Rights", adaptation of general education course he developed 1950 on WGBH ; Chafee received honorary degrees ; 1936 Doctor of Law from St. John's University ; 1937 Brown University ; 1953 University of Chicago ; 1941 Doctor of Civil Law from Boston University ; 1944 Doctor of Letters from Colby College ; Fellow at Brown University ; member of American Philosophical Society ; American Bar Association ; Colonial Society of Massachusetts ; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; Massachusetts Historical Society ; Alpha Delta Phi ; Phi Beta Kappa ; Harvard Club of Boston ; the Tavern Club (of Boston) ; Century Association.