Thayer, James Bradley, 1831-1902

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Birth 1831-01-15
Death 1902-02-14
Americans
English

Biographical notes:

Attorney, teacher, legal scholar. LL.B. Harvard Law School, 1856; LL.D., 1894; Royall Prof. 1874-1883; Weld Prof. 1883-1902. Law practice in Boston, 1856-1874. Chairman, Committe on Indian Legislation, 1887-1892. Consultant on Dakota Constitution of 1889. Author of Preliminary Treatise on the Law of Evidence at Common Law (1898), John Marshall (1901), A Western Journey with Emerson (1884).

From the description of Papers of James Bradley Thayer, 1787-1902 (inclusive), 1850-1902 (bulk). (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 122505738

James Bradley Thayer was a Boston lawyer and professor of law at Harvard (1873-1902).

From the description of Letters from various correspondents, 1778-1895. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612365672

From the guide to the Letters to James Bradley Thayer from various correspondents, 1778-1895., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University)

Thayer (Harvard, A.B., 1852) taught law at Harvard Law School.

From the description of Papers of James Bradley Thayer, 1856-1898 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972899

Thayer was an attorney, teacher, legal scholar. LL.B. Harvard Law School, 1856; LL.D., 1894; Royall Prof. 1874-1883; Weld Prof. 1883-1902; Hartwell was an associate justice of the Hawaii (Republic) Supreme Court (1868-1874); attorney general (1874, 1876-1878) and chief justice of the Supreme Court (1907-1911).

From the description of Letter to Alfred Stedman Hartwell, 1 November 1895. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 237396079

Thayer, James Bradley, attorney, law professor, legal scholar.

b. Haverhill, Massachusetts, January 15, 1831.

s. Abijah Wyman and Susan Bradley Thayer.

A.B., Harvard College, 1852.

Graduate work, Harvard University; LL.B., Harvard Law School, 1856.

LL.D., Iowa State University, 1891; Harvard University, 1894.

m. Sophia Bradford Ripley, 1861.

Practiced law in Boston from 1856 until 1874.

Royall Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, 1874-1883 (appointed Royall Professor December 8, 1873); Weld Professor of Law, 1883-1902.

d. February 14, 1902 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

A Western Journey with Mr. Emerson,1884. The Teaching of English Law in Universities,1892. " The Origin and Scope of the American Doctrine of Constitutional Law," read at the Congress of Jurisprudence and Law Reform in Chicago, August 9, 1893, and published in the Harvard Law Review,7:129 (1893). The Development of Trial by Jury,1896. Reverend Samuel Ripley of Waltham,1897. A Preliminary Treatise on the Law of Evidence at Common Law,1898. John Marshall, 1901. Also articles in legal journals, monthly magazines and Bovier's Dictionary of Law. Letters of Chauncey Wright,1878. Selected Cases on Evidence at Common Law,1892, 1900. Cases on Constitutional Law,2 volumes, 1895.

From the guide to the Papers, 1787-1902, (Harvard Law School Library, Harvard University)

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  • Slavery
  • Constitutional law
  • Evidence
  • Evidence (Law)
  • Evidence (Law) - Study and teaching
  • Indians of North America
  • Intellectual property
  • Law
  • Law teachers
  • Lawyers
  • Marriage
  • North Dakota
  • Trials
  • Witnesses

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  • Law teachers
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  • Massachusetts (as recorded)
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  • North Dakota (as recorded)
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