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15 unusual facts about Admission to the bar in the United States


Admission to the bar in the United States

Applicants in "category A" must have an engineering or "hard science" degree in a field listed in the General Requirements Bulletin.

Thus, a graduate of a law school without ABA accreditation may not sit for the Arizona bar, although they may take the bar in other states.

Ebenezer Dumont

He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Vevay.

Edward D. Cooke

He was admitted to the bar in the same year and commenced practice in Chicago, Illinois.

George A. Paddock

He was admitted to the bar in 1907 and commenced practice in Chicago, Illinois.

Howard M. Snapp

He was admitted to the bar in 1878 and commenced practice in Globe, Arizona and returned to Joliet, Illinois, and continued the practice of law.

John B. Hawley

He was admitted to the bar in 1854 and commenced practice at Rock Island, Illinois.

John R. Thomas

He was admitted to the bar in 1869 and practiced.

John V. L. Pruyn

He studied law and in 1832 was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Albany.

Julius Goldzier

He studied law and was admitted to the bar.

Lynden Evans

He was admitted to the bar in 1885 and commenced practice at Chicago, Illinois.

Naomi Gurian

That same year she passed the California bar and went to work as an associate attorney at the Writers Guild of America.

Peter Vredenburgh Jr.

He studied law in Poughkeepsie, New York and was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1859 and moved to Eatontown, New Jersey, where he practiced law.

Seymour Glanzer

Glanzer was admitted to the bar in New York (1961), the District of Columbia(1965) and the U.S. Supreme Court (1967).

Thompson Campbell

He attended public schools, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.


Abijah Bigelow

He was admitted to the Worcester County bar in 1798 and commenced practice in Leominster, Massachusetts, in the same year.

Abraham Nott

He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1791, beginning to practice in Union, South Carolina.

Alexander Barrow

Born near Nashville, Tennessee to Willie Barrow and his first wife Jane Green, Barrow attended the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York from 1816 to 1818, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1822, commencing practice in Nashville.

Alfred Wagstaff, Jr.

Graduating LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1866, Wagstaff Jr. was admitted to the bar, practiced in New York City, and resided in West Islip.

Charles W. Waterman

He graduated from the University of Michigan Law School at Ann Arbor in 1889, and was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Denver.

Daniel L. D. Granger

He was admitted to the bar in 1877 and commenced practice in Providence, Rhode Island.

Frank Gillespie

He was admitted to the bar in 1892 and commenced practice in Charleston, West Virginia.

Fred S. Jackson

He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Eureka, Kansas.

George Helm Yeaman

He was admitted to the bar in 1852 and commenced practice in Owensboro, Kentucky.

George P. Wilson

He settled in Winona, Minnesota and read law in the offices of Lewis & Simpson and William Mitchell, a former justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, before being admitted to the bar at Rochester in October 1862.

George Whitman Hendee

He studied law in the office of W. G. Ferrin of Johnson, and was admitted to the bar in 1855 and commenced practice in Morrisville, Vermont.

Isaac N. Morris

He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1835 and commenced practice in Warsaw, Illinois, in 1836.

James Adams Stallworth

He was admitted to the bar in 1848 and commenced practice in Evergreen, Alabama.

James Martin Bell

He was admitted to the bar in 1817 and commenced practice in Cambridge, Ohio.

Joshua Jewett

He attended the common schools, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1836 commencing practice in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

Laban T. Moore

He was admitted to the bar in 1849 and commenced practice in Louisa, Kentucky.

Marcus C. Lisle

He was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of his profession in Winchester, Kentucky, in 1887.

Martin F. Smith

He was admitted to the bar in 1912 and commenced practice in Hoquiam, Washington.

Orie Solomon Ware

He was admitted to the bar in 1903 and commenced practice in Covington, Kentucky.

Roger W. Hulburd

Hulburd was active in the Vermont Bar Association and served for several years as Chairman of the state Board of Bar Examiners.

Roy H. McVicker

He was admitted to the bar in New York in 1950, and practiced law in Wheat Ridge, Colorado from 1953 to 1964.

Samuel Birdsall

He was admitted to the bar in 1812 and commenced practice in Cooperstown, New York.

Tappan Wentworth

He was admitted to the bar in 1826 and commenced practice in York County, Maine.

Thomas G. Alvord

Then he studied law with Thomas A. Tomlinson and George A. Simmons at Keeseville, New York, was admitted to the bar in 1832, and commenced practice at Salina, New York.

Thomas M. Edwards

He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1817, commencing practice in Keene, New Hampshire.

Warren A. Haggott

He was admitted to the bar in 1892 and commenced practice in 1899 at Idaho Springs, Colorado.

William M. Brodhead

He was admitted to the Michigan Bar in 1968 and commenced practice in Detroit.

William S. Fitzgerald

The following year, he moved to Cleveland, was admitted to the Ohio State Bar Association, and began practicing law.