The 1920s: Law and Justice: Deaths

THE 1920s: LAW AND JUSTICE: DEATHS

James De Witt Andrews, 83, legal scholar and author whose textbook Reform of Legal Procedure (1911) was required reading in many American law schools during the 1920s, 24 October 1929.

Richard A. Ballinger, 63, attorney with expertise in mineral mining law, secretary of the interior (1909-1911) under President William Howard Taft, 6 June 1922.

Edgar Addison Bancroft, 67, prominent corporate attorney from Chicago, chairman of the Illinois State Commission On Race Relations (1919), American ambassador to Japan (1924-1925), 28 July 1925.

Zebulon R. Brockway, 93, progressive penologist and longtime superintendent of Elmira State Reformatory (1876-1900) in Elmira, New York, a proponent of indeterminate criminal sentencing with an emphasis on prisoner rehabilitation, 21 October 1920.

William R. Day, 74, U.S. secretary of state (1898) under President William McKinley, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1903-1922), 7 July 1923.

Wyatt Earp, 78, American frontier lawman, assistant marshal of Dodge City, Kansas (1876, 1878-1879), deputy marshal of Tombstone, Arizona (1881), 13 January 1929.

Judson Harmon, 81, U.S. attorney general (1895-1897) under President Grover Cleveland, the first in that office to file a restraint-of-trade lawsuit against an American corporation under the provisions of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 22 February 1927.

George Cochrane Hazelton, 53, civil-law attorney in New York City and a successful Broadway playwright, author of The Raven (1895), Mistress Nell (1908), and The Yellow Jacket (1912), 24 June 1921.

Robert Lansing, 64, leading expert on international maritime law and founding editor of the American Journal of International Law, secretary of state (1915-1920) under President Woodrow Wilson, 30 October 1928.

Robert Todd Lincoln, 82, only son of President Abraham Lincoln to reach adulthood, corporate lawyer, secretary of war (1881-1885) under Presidents James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur, 6 July 1926.

Joseph McKenna, 83, associate justice of U.S. Supreme Court (1898-1925), last Supreme Court justice confirmed by the Senate during the nineteenth century, 21 November 1926.

Mahlon Pitney, 66, associate justice of U.S. Supreme Court (1912-1922), 9 December 1924.

Glenn Edward Plumb, 55, labor lawyer and proponent of federal-government ownership of the American railway, telegraph, and telephone systems, 1 August 1922.

John Teale Pratt, 51, corporate attorney, philanthropist, music impresario, and financier, 17 June 1927.

George Shiras Jr., 88, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1892-1903), 2 August 1924.

Moorfield Storey, 84, specialist in international commercial law, civil libertarian, penal reformer, and advocate of racial integration who served as founding national secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1909-1922), 10 October 1929.

Edward D. White, 75, associate justice of U.S. Supreme Court (1894-1910), chief justice of U.S. Supreme Court (1910-1921), credited with forming the court majority that declared the "separate but equal" doctrine in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), 19 May 1921.