Charles Cotesworth Beaman
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Charles Cotesworth Beaman Sr. (May 7, 1840 – December 15, 1900) was an American lawyer who wrote The National and Private Alabama Claims and their Final and Amicable Settlement (1871).[1] In December 1870 he served as the first-ever Solicitor General of the United States, a position created to compile the individual claims of losses caused by Confederate raider ships during the United States Civil War.[2]
Biography
Charles Cotesworth Beaman was born in Houlton, Maine on May 7, 1840.[3]
He graduated from Harvard University and Harvard Law School.[4] He began practicing law in New York City in 1867.[3]
Beaman was also a vice president of the University Club of New York from 1890 to 1899 and a president from 1899 to 1900.[5]
He died at his home in New York on December 15, 1900.[6]
References
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- ↑ "Charles Cotesworth Beaman". Dictionary of American Biography Base Set. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928–1936. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2005.
- ↑ Hackett, Frank Warren. Reminiscences of the Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration 1872, The Alabama Claims. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911. 84–85.
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