William Dameron Guthrie

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William Dameron Guthrie
Born(1859-02-03)February 3, 1859
San Francisco, California
DiedDecember 8, 1935(1935-12-08) (aged 76)
Lattingtown, New York
Resting placeLocust Valley Cemetery, Locust Valley, New York, U.S.
EducationColumbia Law School
Occupation(s)Lawyer, educator
Political partyRepublican
Spouse
Ella E. Fuller
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(m. 1889)​

William Dameron Guthrie (1859–1935) was an American lawyer and educator.

Biography

William Dameron Guthrie was born in

rate cases.[3] He was a William L. Storrs lecturer at Yale University in 1907-08 and was Ruggles Professor of Constitutional Law at Columbia University from 1909 to 1922.[4] Besides his contributions to periodicals on legal and political subjects, he was author of Lectures on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution
(1898), Introduction to American Constitutional Law (1913) and Magna Carta and Other Addresses (1916, Columbia University Press, NY).

Guthrie served as president of the

Association of the Bar of the City of New York
from 1925 to 1927. Guthrie also served as a lawyer to the Rockefeller family.

He married Ella E. Fuller in New York City on May 12, 1889.[1]

A Republican, he was elected the first mayor of Lattingtown, New York in 1931, and reelected in 1934.[2]

William Dameron Guthrie died at his home in Lattingtown on December 8, 1935. He was buried at Locust Valley Cemetery.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. XV. James T. White & Company. 1916. pp. 96–97. Retrieved December 21, 2020 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ a b c "W. D. Guthrie Dies Suddenly at 76; Famous Lawyer". Brooklyn Times-Union. Lattingtown, Long Island. December 9, 1935. p. 20. Retrieved December 21, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. Time Magazine. December 13, 1926. Archived from the original
    on December 20, 2008. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
  4. ^ The Booker T. Washington Papers. Vol. 12. University of Illinois Press. 1982. p. 324. Archived from the original on December 20, 2007. Retrieved December 21, 2020 – via History Cooperative.
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