Asa P. French

Asa P. French
United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts
In office 1906–1914
Preceded by	Melvin O. Adams
Succeeded by	George Weston Anderson
Personal details
Born	January 29, 1860(1860-01-29)[1]
Died	September 17, 1938(1938-09-17) (aged 78)[1]
Nationality	American
Political party	Republican
Residence	Randolph, Massachusetts[2]
Alma mater	Yale University[2]
Occupation	Attorney

Asa Palmer French was an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts from 1906 to 1914.^[1]

French was born on January 29, 1860. His father was a Commissioner of the Court of Alabama Claims. In 1892 French graduated from Yale University.^[2]

From 1901 to 1906 French was the District Attorney for the Southeastern District of Massachusetts.^[2] In 1905 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Massachusetts Attorney General.^[3] In 1906 he was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to serve as the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. He was re-appointed by President William Howard Taft in 1910 and remained U.S. Attorney until November 1, 1914 when he resigned to enter private practice.^[2]

In 1916 he testified before the United States Senate during the confirmation hearings of United States Supreme Court nominee Louis Brandeis. Of Brandeis, French said: "Mr. Brandeis has, in my experience, the reputation of being a man of integrity, a man of honor, a man who is conscientiously striving for what he believes to be right".^[2]

French died on November 17, 1938.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "French, Asa Palmer". PoliticalGraveyard.com. The Political Graveyard. http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gallagher.html#627.11.93. Retrieved 6 September 2011. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Nomination of Louis D. Brandeis: hearings before the subcommittee of the Committee on the judiciary, United States Senate, sixty-fourth Congress, first session, on the nominationof Louis D. Brandeis to be an associate justice of the Supreme court of the United States. 1916. pp. 769-770. http://books.google.com/books?id=rZwTAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA769&dq. 
3. ^ Speech of Dist. Atty. Asa P. French: candidate for the Republican nomination for attorney general, at the summer outing of the Norfolk Club, Hotel Pemberton, Hull, July 15, 1905. 1905.