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{{short description|American lawyer}}

'''Ernest Wilson Huffcut''' (November 21, 1860{{spaced ndash}}May 4, 1907)<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ERdLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA791 American Bar Association, Sir Humphry Davy, George Sharswood - ''The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy'']</ref>  was an American [[lawyer]] and [[educator]], born in [[Kent, Connecticut|Kent]], [[Connecticut]].  He attended [[Cornell University]], where he was a brother of [[Theta Delta Chi]] and subsequently graduated in 1884. Following his undergraduate education, he enrolled directly into the [[Cornell Law School]] from which he graduated in 1888. He then practiced law at [[Minneapolis]], [[Minnesota]], in 1888–90, served as [[professor]] of law at [[Indiana University]] in 1890–92, and thereafter was [[dean (education)|dean]] of Cornell Law School.  Governor [[Charles Evans Hughes]], of New York, at the beginning of his first term (1907), appointed Huffcut his legal adviser. Supposedly the result of a breakdown due to overwork,{{citation needed|date=October 2015}}  Huffcut committed [[suicide]] by shooting himself on board the Albany boat, C. W. Morse coming down the Hudson River.<ref>[https://http ''The Troy Daily Times'']  {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160114075411/https://http/ |date=January 14, 2016 }}</ref>

==Published works==
* ''American Cases on Contracts'' (1884; third revised edition, 1913)  with E. H. Woodruff
* ''Cases on the Law of Agency'' (1896; second edition, 1907)  
* ''Elements of Business Law'' (1905)

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==External links==
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* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Ernest Wilson Huffcut}}

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