Emory Speer letter, 1897.

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Emory Speer letter, 1897.

The collection consists of a letter from Judge Emory Speer to William H. Baldwin. The letter talks about the "little volume" which refers to Lectures on the Constitution of the United States before the Law Class of Mercer University, 1897. The second letter is from Hon. Edward J. Phelps of Yale to Judge Speer, Jan. 16, 1898.

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United States

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Baldwin, William H. (William Henry), 1851-1923

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Mercer university

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Phelps, Edward John, 1822-1900

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Lawyer, politician, diplomat, and educator, of Burlington, Vt., and New York, N.Y.; born in Middlebury, Vt.; attended Yale Law School (1841-1842) and admitted to the bar in 1843; second comptroller of the U.S. Treasury (1851-1853), U.S. minister to Great Britain (1885-1889), and senior counsel (1893) for the U.S. in the arbitration of the Bering Sea Fur-Seal Controversy with Great Britain; founder and president (1880) of American Bar Association; taught law at Yale after 1881; died in New Haven,...

Yale University.

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Speer, Emory

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Emory Speer was a representative from Georgia. He was born in Culloden, Monroe County, Ga., September 3, 1848. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1869, entered the Confederate Army as a volunteer in the Fifth Kentucky Regiment, Lewis Brigade. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1869 and practiced law in Athens, Georgia. He was the solicitor general from 1873-1876 and later became the dean of Mercer Law School. He died in Macon, Georgia on December 13, 1918. From th...