Charles Warren (U.S. author)

Stained glass window dedicated to Charles Warren in the National Cathedral, Washington, DC, USA

Charles Warren (1868, Boston, Massachusetts – August 16, 1954, Washington, D.C.)^[1] was a legal scholar, and the author of the book The Supreme Court in United States History (1922), which won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1923.

He was also a lawyer. During the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, Warren served as Assistant Attorney General from June 1914 to April 1918,^[2] and drafted the Espionage Act of 1917.

Warren was graduated from Harvard University in 1889, and also was a graduate of Harvard Law School. He received his doctor of laws degree from Columbia Law School in 1933. He lectured at the University of Rochester, Boston University School of Law, Northwestern University School of Law, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Virginia, the University of Chicago, and several others.

In 1894, he founded the Immigration Restriction League with his fellow Harvard graduates, Prescott F. Hall and Robert DeCourcy Ward. The organization promoted the exclusion of the so-called new immigrants because of their allegedly inferior "racial qualities".^[3]

He married Annie Louise Bliss in 1904, and they celebrated their fiftieth anniversary before his death.

Selective bibliography

• History of the Harvard Law School and of Early Legal Conditions in America (1908)
• A History of the American Bar (1911)
• The Supreme Court in United States History (1922; revised edition 1928)
• The Making of the Constitution (1928)
• Congress, the Constitution and the Supreme Court (1930; rev. ed. 1935)
• Congress as Santa Claus (1932)
• Troubles of a Neutral (1934)
• Bankruptcy in United States History (1935)
• Odd Byways in American History (1942)

References

1. ^ "Noted Lawyer, Pultizer Prize Winner, Dies", The Washington Post, August 17, 1954, p. 25.
2. ^ "Bailly-Blanchard Named", The Washington Post, May 16, 1914, p. 4. "New Assistant Attorney General", The Washington Post, June 2, 1914, p. 2. "Says 20,000 Spies Infest New York", The Washington Post, April 20, 1918, p. 8. "Holds Up Treason Bill", The Washington Post, April 23, 1918, p. 2.
3. ^ Solomon, Barbara Miller: Ancestors and Immigrants. A Changing New England Tradition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1956.

Further reading

• "Charles Warren" (editorial), The Washington Post, August 18, 1954, p. 10.
• Twentieth Century Authors. First Supplement. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1955.
• Who Was Who in America. Volume 3, 1951-1960. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1966.
• A history of the American bar (1911) by Charles Warren

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