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unusual facts about Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft


George H. Sharpe

He was admitted to the bar in 1849 and practiced law at the firm of Bidwell & Strong (now known as Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft).


Allen Sangree

It appears that this series of events ended with the libel suite against Joseph Pulitzer, Caleb Van Hamm and Robert Hunt Lyman of the New York World as well as the World itself, and the Press Publishing Company for libel against William Nelson Cromwell, J.P. Morgan, Douglas Robinson, Charles P. Taft, Elihu Root, and Theodore Roosevelt.

Charles Andrew Willard

On May 8, 1909, Willard was nominated by President William H. Taft to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota vacated by Milton Dwight Purdy.

Ferdinand August Geiger

On February 19, 1912, Geiger was nominated by President William H. Taft to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin vacated by Joseph V. Quarles.

Fifth Party System

Opposition Republicans were split between a conservative wing, led by Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft, and a more successful moderate wing exemplified by the politics of Northeastern leaders such as Nelson Rockefeller, George W. Romney, William Scranton and Henry Cabot Lodge.

Frank A. Youmans

On May 29, 1911, Youmans was nominated by President William H. Taft to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas vacated by John H. Rogers.

George M. Bourquin

On February 13, 1912, Bourquin was nominated by President William H. Taft to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Montana vacated by Carl Rasch.

George Strong

George Templeton Strong (1820–1875), his son, diarist during the American Civil War, worked at Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft

International Typographical Union

Newspaper publishers called for aid from the authors of the law, U.S. Senator Robert A. Taft (R - Ohio) and Congressman Fred A. Hartley, Jr. (R - New Jersey) The ITU and Woodruff Randolph won in Chicago.

Kingsley A. Taft

In 1962, Taft decided to run for Chief Justice of the Court defeating Carl V. Weygandt.

Lambert Cadwalader

When Colonel Magaw surrendered the fort on the next day, Cadwalader was among those taken prisoner.

The Art of Cross-Examination

The cross-examination by Henry W. Taft of Dr. Charles Dana, Dr. Frederick Peterson and Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe, expert witnesses in the litigation over the will of Andrew F. Kennedy.

Thomas McCall Cadwalader

Her step-daughter Mary Cadwalader Rawle (1850–1923), who was also her cousin second removed, married the brother of Edith Wharton.

Vassa Larin

In 2006-2008 she worked as the Graduate Assistant of the renowned expert on Byzantine Liturgy, Professor Robert F. Taft, S.J., at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome.

Wallace H. White, Jr.

According to John Gunther's 1947 book Inside U.S.A., as the titular party floor leader, "his chief function is to hold the balance between two much more dominant and vivid men, Taft and Vandenberg...Everybody likes White; few people pay much attention to him."


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