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George Woodward Wickersham (September 19, 1858 – January 25, 1936) was an American lawyer and Attorney General of the United States in the administration of President William H. Taft. He returned to government to serve in appointed positions under both Republican and Democratic administrations, for Woodrow Wilson and Herbert Hoover .
24 de oct. de 2022 · George Woodward Wickersham was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on September 19, 1858. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania earning the degree of LL.B. in 1880. In 1901 that university conferred upon him the honorary degree of master of arts.
George Woodward Wickersham, WICKERSHAM, GEORGE WOODWARD As U.S. attorney general from 1909 to 1913, George Woodward Wickersham was an aggressive enforcer of federal antitrust la… Criminology, criminology, the study of crime, society's response to it, and its prevention, including examination of the environmental, hereditary, or psychologic…
20 de may. de 2020 · The actual man behind the name, George Wickersham, is less well known to current generations. Yet from roughly 1900 to his death in 1936, George Wickersham was one of the most renowned and influential lawyers of his time.
18 de may. de 2018 · As U.S. attorney general from 1909 to 1913, George Woodward Wickersham was an aggressive enforcer of federal antitrust laws. Late in his career, he headed a commission that conducted the first comprehensive national investigation of the U.S. criminal justice system.
Wickersham was a staunch critic of trusts, lauding the April 1909 ruling to dissolve the Standard Oil Company as "one of the most important ever rendered in this country." He also won the enmity of the business community with his battle against progressive railroad regulations.
Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. WICKERSHAM, GEORGE (1858–1936)Appointed attorney general in 1909 by william howard taft, George Wickersham argued and won standard oil company v. united states (1911) and American Tobacco Company v. United States (1911).
