Collection Summary

Creator: McReynolds, James Clark
Title: Addendum to the Papers of Justice James Clark McReynolds 1819 - 1967 [b]
Accession: MSS 85-1b
Description: 1 letter.
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Collection Description & Arrangement

A letter written by James C. McReynolds as Assistant Attorney Genral, on imprinted Department of Justice stationery. It is two separate pages dated April 5, 1905. To S. S. Gregory, Chicago. In part: "...The Jutoy case was argued last Monday and from the way the members of the court fired questions at me it was apparent that they took more than ordinary interest in the subject. We really had quite a time with a good humored discussion. I hope to get the rest of the court, but Justices Brewer & Peckham will almost certainly be against me..."

Biographical & Historical Information

James Clark McReynolds was born on February 3, 1862, in Elkton, Todd County, Kentucky. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Vanderbilt University in 1882, where he was elected valedictorian and served as editor-in-chief of The Vanderbilt Observer.Upon graduation, he commenced the study of law at the University of Virginia where he obtained a law degree in 1884. His formal education completed, McReynolds embarked upon a lucrative private law practice in Nashville while teaching law at Vanderbilt University. In 1903, however, he moved to Washington, D.C. and became Assistant Attorney General, a position he held until 1912. During this period his vigorous prosecution of the "tobacco trust" bolstered his reputation among progressive reform groups. Active in Woodrow Wilson's successful presidential campaign in 1912, he was appointed Attorney General after briefly practicing law in New York City.

In 1914, Wilson appointed McReynolds to the United States Supreme Court where he served until his retirement in 1941. Justice McReynolds died in 1946.

Acquisition Information

Date Received 1988
Donor Information Purchased in April of 1988.

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1 letter.

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