Charles Warren (U.S. author)
Charles Warren (March 9, 1868 – August 16, 1954)[1][2][3] was an American lawyer and legal scholar who won a Pulitzer Prize for his book The Supreme Court in United States History (1922).[4]
Early life
Warren was born in
Following family tradition, he attended Harvard University, receiving an A.B. in 1889 and an A.M from Harvard Law School in 1892. Much later, in 1933, Warren would receive an honorary doctor of laws degree from Columbia Law School.[3]
Career
Warren began practicing law in Boston in
Warren was an active member of the Young Men's Democratic Club, but lost both his attempts to gain elective office (as state senator in 1894 and 1895).[7]
On May 31, 1894, Warren founded the Immigration Restriction League with his fellow Harvard graduates Prescott F. Hall and Robert DeCourcy Ward. The organization advocated excluding new immigrants from southern and eastern Europe because of their allegedly inferior "racial qualities" compared to Anglo-Saxons.[8] Warren supported this cause by publishing short stories in national magazines including 'Scribner's,' 'McClure's,' and the 'Atlantic.' He also opposed women's suffrage, bimetallism, protectionism and imperialism.[9] The organization spread to other American cities, and lasted approximately two decades, disbanding after Hall's 1921 death.
Warren joined Russell's law firm as an associate when the governor's term ended in 1894, and later formed Warren & Perry, where he practised law from 1897 to 1914. He handled various types of cases: criminal, real estate, domestic relations and corporate. His most famous case defended James Michael Curley, who was convicted for conspiracy to defraud the United States for taking the civil service examination for a constituent. In 1905, Warren became chair of the Massachusetts State Civil Service Commission, where he served until 1911, when a candidate backed by Martin Lomasney, one of the powerful machine politicians against which the patrician progressive worked, won.[10]
Warren then concentrated on his law practice and writing career, as well as became involved in national progressive politics. In addition to law review articles, Warren published two encyclopedic books which became the starting point for American legal historians for decades: History of the Harvard Law School and of Early Legal Conditions in America (3 Vol. 1909) and A History of the American Bar.
Warren served on the executive committee of the Massachusetts
After the war (and Wilson's death), Warren remained in Washington, D.C., and received several appointments as special master from the Supreme Court for disputes involving state boundaries and water rights. The State Department also consulted Warren concerning neutrality matters in the 1930s.
Publication of his three-volume History of the United States Supreme Court in 1922 cemented Warren's reputation as a legal scholar, and it won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1923. Warren disagreed with historian
Warren was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1939.[13]
Warren retired from public service in the 1940s. He married Annie Louise Bliss in 1904, and they celebrated their fiftieth anniversary before his death. They had no children.[14]
Death and legacy
Warren died in Washington, D.C. His autobiographical notes are held by the Massachusetts Historical Society and Columbia University's Oral History Collection.
Selected works
- History of the Harvard Law School and of Early Legal Conditions in America (1908)[19]
- A History of the American Bar. 1911.
- The Supreme Court in United States History (3 volumes, 1922)[20] (2 vol. revised edition 1928)
- The Supreme Court and Sovereign States (1924) [21]
- The Making of the Constitution (1928; rev. ed 1937)[22]
- Congress, the Constitution and the Supreme Court (1925; rev. ed. 1935)[23]
- Congress as Santa Claus; or, National Donations and the General Welfare Clause of the Constitution (1932)[24]
- Troubles of a Neutral (1934)[25]
- Bankruptcy in United States History (1935)[26]
- Odd Byways in American History (1942)[27]
References
- ISSN 0002-9300.
- ^ U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925 for Charles Warren, lawyer, Dedham, Mass., 1913
- ^ a b c "Noted Lawyer, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Dies", The Washington Post, August 17, 1954, p. 25.
- ^ "History". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-25.
- ^ Michael Allen Wolf, Charles Warren, American National Biography, Vol 22, p. 703 (Oxford University Press, 1999)
- ^ The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America by Daniel Okrent pg. 55
- ISBN 9780787663742.
- ^ Solomon, Barbara Miller: Ancestors and Immigrants. A Changing New England Tradition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1956.
- ^ American National Biography at p. 703
- ^ American National Biography at pp. 703-704
- ^ "Bailly-Blanchard Named", The Washington Post, May 16, 1914, p. 4. "New Assistant Attorney General", The Washington Post, June 2, 1914, p. 2. "Says 20,000 Spies Infest New York", The Washington Post, April 20, 1918, p. 8. "Holds Up Treason Bill", The Washington Post, April 23, 1918, p. 2.
- ^ "Charles Warren". Answers.com. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
- ^ "Charles Warren". Retrieved 20 October 2014.
- ^ "Charles Warren's Grave* (1868-1954) - Rice on History". Rice on History. 9 April 2012. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
- ^ "Index Charles Warren Center". Retrieved 20 October 2014.
- ^ "The Unknown Charles Warren Center". Retrieved 20 October 2014.
- ^ http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2012/ms012024.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ISBN 9781584770060.
- ^ Warren, Charles, 1868-1954. "The Supreme Court in United States History, by Charles Warren - The Online Books Page". Retrieved 20 October 2014.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Full text of "The Supreme Court and Sovereign States"". Retrieved 2 January 2022.
- ^ "Full text of "The Making Of The Constitution"". Retrieved 20 October 2014.
- ^ scholarship.law.marquette.edu
- ^ Warren, Charles (1932-01-01). Congress as Santa Claus: Or, National Donations and the General Welfare Clause of the Constitution. Michie Company.
- ^ Warren, Charles (1934-01-01). Troubles of a Neutral ...
- ISBN 9781893122161.
- ISBN 9780674365285.
Further reading
- "Charles Warren" (editorial), The Washington Post, August 18, 1954, p. 10.
- Twentieth Century Authors. First Supplement. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1955.
- Who Was Who in America. Volume 3, 1951–1960. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1966.
- Charles Warren at Library of Congress, with 63 library catalog records