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Julian Codman
BornSeptember 21, 1870
Cotuit, Massachusetts
DiedDecember 30, 1932(1932-12-30) (aged 62)
Boston, Massachusetts
Burial placeForest Hills Cemetery
Education
Occupation
Charles R. Codman
(father)
Family

Julian Codman (September 21, 1870 – December 30, 1932),[1] was an American lawyer who was a vigorous opponent of Prohibition who was also involved with the Anti-Imperialist League.[2]

Early life

Codman was born in

45th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and Lucy Lyman Paine Sturgis (1833–1907).[3] Among his siblings were Russell Sturgis Codman; John Sturgis Codman; Anne McMasters Codman, who married Henry Bromfield Cabot; and Susan Welles Codman, who married Redington Fiske.[1]

His maternal grandfather was

Boston Museum of Fine Arts, along with Charles Brigham.[5]

Codman received an

LL.B. degree from Harvard Law School in 1895. He passed the Massachusetts Bar exam in 1895 and began practicing as a lawyer.[1][6]

Career

Codman, an Independent, was a member of the Executive Committee of New England Anti-Imperialist League from 1902 to 1904. In 1904, he was a Delegate of the Democratic National Convention, a Signatory of Philippine Independence Committee Petition, and sat on the Executive Committee of Anti-Imperialist League. In 1918, he was the vice-president of Anti-Imperialist League.[1]

From 1916 until 1919, Codman served in the

U.S. Army during World War I, achieving the rank of Colonel.[1]

He was also a vice-president of the Associated Charities, headed the Constitutional Liberty League and served as counsel for the Joint Legislative Committee, was a foe of prohibition. He twice represented the combined anti-Prohibition societies at Congressional hearings.[1]

Codman co-wrote Secretary Root's Record: "Marked Severities" in Philippine Warfare.[1]

Personal life

In 1897, he married Norah Chadwick (1873–1961), daughter of James Read Chadwick and his wife Katherine Maria Lyman. They had two daughters, who were the wives of Guy Morris and Ransom F. Hodges.[1]

Codman died at the

Boston, Massachusetts.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "J. CODMAN IS DEAD; LONG DRY LAW FOE; Boston Attorney Was Widely Known as a Vigorous Prohibition Opponent. COUNSEL FOR WET GROUPS Began Fight Soon After Passage of Volatead Act--Was Executive Commander of Crusaders" (PDF). The New York Times. December 31, 1932. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  2. ^ "Codman Urges Virulent to Disregard Dry Law". Harvard Crimson. 11 May 1926.
  3. ^ a b Alstyne, Lawrence Van; Ogden, Charles Burr (1907). The Ogden family in America, Elizabethtown branch, and their English ancestry: John Ogden, the Pilgrim, and his descendants, 1640–1906. Printed for private circulation by J.B. Lippincott company. p. 407. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  4. ^ Napier, Priscilla (1995). Barbarian Eye. Brassey's. p.207
  5. ISBN 9780792274247
    . Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  6. ISBN 9781438422596
    . Retrieved 11 September 2018.

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