IN MEMORIAM

IN MEMORIAM 

Davis Polk & Wardwell llP

For Internal Distribution Only

Contents 

The Predecessor Firms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 

Years of Partnership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 

In Memoriam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

The Predecessor Firms

The Predecessor Firms 

1849–68 Francis N. Bangs 

1868–72 Bangs Sedgwick & North 

1873–76 Bangs & North 

1876–80 F.N. & C.W. Bangs 

1870–78 Hascall & Stetson 

1878–80 Hascall Stetson & Stedman 

1880–87 Bangs & Stetson 

1887–94 Bangs Stetson Tracy & MacVeagh 

1880–94 Jennings & Russell 

1894–96 Stetson Tracy Jennings & Russell 

1896–1923 Stetson Jennings & Russell 

1923–24 Stetson Jennings Russell & Davis 

1924–25 Stetson Jennings & Russell 

1925–42 Davis Polk Wardwell Gardiner & Reed 

1943–67 Davis Polk Wardwell Sunderland & Kiendl 

1967–2009 Davis Polk & Wardwell 

2009– Davis Polk & Wardwell llP 

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Years of Partnership

Years of Partnership 

Francis Nehemiah Bangs 

1849–1885 

Charles W. Bangs 

1880–1910 

Francis Sedgwick Bangs 

1880–1894 

Charles Howland Russell 

1880–1921 

Francis Lynde Stetson 

1880–1920 

Charles MacVeagh 

1886–1931 

Wayne MacVeagh 

1886–1889 

Charles Edward Tracy 

1887–1896 

Grover Cleveland 

1889–1893 

Frederick B. Jennings 

1894–1920 

Henry Lynde Sprague 

1894–1914 

Edward R. Greene 

1909–1928 

Hall Park McCullough 

1909–1966 

Allen Wardwell 

1909–1953 

Ogden L. Mills 

1914–1921 

William C. Cannon 

1915–1971 

Lansing P. Reed 

1915–1937 

George H. Gardiner 

1916–1930 

Winfred T. Denison 

1917–1919 

Frank L. Polk 

1920–1943 

J. Howland Auchincloss 

1921–1968 

John W. Davis 

1921–1955 

Edwin S.S. Sunderland 

1921–1964 

Theodore Kiendl 

1923–1976 

Montgomery B. Angell 

1927–1959 

Otis T. Bradley 

1930–1950 

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Carroll H. Brewster 

1930–1952 

George A. Brownell 

1930–1970 

Walter D. Fletcher 

1930–1972 

Edgar G. Crossman 

1934–1967 

Leighton H. Coleman 

1934–1970 

Henry Clay Alexander 

1935–1938 

Ralph M. Carson 

1935–1977 

Frederick A.O. Schwarz 

1935–1974 

Marion N. Fisher 

1937–1952 

Thomas O’Gorman FitzGibbon 

1940–1963 

Ewen Cameron MacVeagh 

1940–1971 

Charles M. Spofford 

1940–1991 

John C. Hover 

1941–1971 

Edward R. Wardwell 

1946–1972 

S. Hazard Gillespie 

1948–1980 

Andrew Y. Rogers 

1949–1977 

D. Nelson Adams 

1949–1977 

Taggart Whipple 

1950–1979 

C.H. Willard 

1950–1970 

Morton L. Fearey, II 

1951–1976 

George W. Palmer 

1954–1977 

C. Payson Coleman 

1957–1982 

Wallace S. Jones 

1957–1982 

David A. Lindsay 

1957–1977 

Peter O.A. Solbert 

1957–1989 

William D. Tucker, Jr. 

1957–1983 

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Peter A. Bator 

1961–1984 

Peter C. McBean 

1961–1975 

Bruce W. Nichols 

1961–1990 

John P. Carroll, Jr. 

1961–1990 

William A. Kaynor 

1961–1989 

Samuel F. Pryor III 

1961–1998 

Lawrence E. Walsh 

1961–1982 

John I. Brokaw 

1966–1983 

Richard E. Nolan 

1966–1990 

James W.B. Benkard 

1973–1988 

Donaldson C. Pillsbury 

1973–1993 

Michael W. Leisure 

1974–1975 

Joseph Alsop Chubb 

1974–1993 

James Woodman Lloyd 

1974–2000 

Francis J. Morison 

1975–2003 

John P. Cooney, Jr. 

1980–2009 

James P. Lawton 

1985–1999 

David W. Ferguson 

1987–2005 

James F. Dolan 

1966–1998 

Richard Spizzirri 

1967–1995 

Allan A.A. Flynn 

1968–1991 

Richard B. Smith 

1971–1990 

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In Memoriam

Francis Nehemiah Bangs 

Born New York, NY 1828. Wesleyan 

University 1841–43. University of the City 

of New York A.B. ’45, class orator. Yale 

law School ’47. Admitted practice New 

York 1849. Francis N. Bangs (and 

successor firms) since 1849. 

Quartermaster sergeant, 17th regiment, 

New York State National Guard (1863). 

Member: Bar Association City of New 

York (President 1882–83), New York 

Historical Society, Union league Club of 

New York. 

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Wayne MacVeagh 

Born Phoenixville, PA 1833. Yale A.B. ’53. 

ll.D.: Amherst ’81, University of 

Pennsylvania ’97, Harvard ’01. Admitted 

practice Pennsylvania 1856. District 

Attorney, Chester County, PA (1859–64). 

Union Army: Captain of infantry (1862); 

Major of cavalry (1863). Chairman, 

Republican State Central Committee 

(1863). United States Minister to Turkey 

(1870–71). Member: Pennsylvania State 

Constitutional Convention (1872–74). 

Partner, MacVeagh & Bispham (1875–81). Chairman: MacVeagh 

Commission sent to louisiana by President Hayes to amicably settle 

disputes of contending parties (1877). Attorney General of the United 

States (1881). Counsel, Bangs Stetson Tracy & MacVeagh (and 

predecessor firm) (1886–89). United States Ambassador to Italy 

(1893–97). Chief Counsel for the U.S., Venezuelan arbitration before 

The Hague Tribunal (1903). Senior associate counsel, McKenney & 

Flannery (1901–17). Author of several articles to North American 

Review in advocacy of international peace and other subjects. 

Member: Phi Beta Kappa; Delta Kappa Epsilon; Chairman, Civil 

Service Reform Association of Philadelphia; Chairman, Indian Rights 

Association of Philadelphia. 

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Grover Cleveland 

Born Caldwell, NJ 1837. Attended 

Fayetteville Academy (Fayetteville, NY) 

and Clinton liberal Institute (Clinton, NY). 

Honorary ll.D.: Princeton University ’97, 

Villanova 1902. Teacher, New York 

Institution for the Blind (1853–54). 

Admitted practice New York 1859. 

Rogers, Bowen & Rogers (1859–62). 

Assistant District Attorney, Erie County, 

NY (1863–65). Vanderpoel & Cleveland 

(1866–69). laning Cleveland & Folsom 

(1869–70). Sheriff of Erie County (1871–73). Bass Cleveland & Bissell 

(and successor firms) (1874–82). Mayor of Buffalo, NY (1882). 

Governor of New York (1883–85). President of the United States 

(1885–89; 1893–97). Counsel, Bangs Stetson Tracy & MacVeagh 

(1889–93). Author: The Independence of the Executive, I, The Atlantic 

Monthly, June 1900, at 721; The Independence of the Executive, II, 

The Atlantic Monthly, July 1900 at 1; Presidential Problems, Century 

Company, 1904. President of the Association of life Insurance 

Presidents (1907–08). Trustee: Princeton University, Equitable life 

Association (Chairman of the Board of Trustees). 

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Francis Sedgwick Bangs 

Born New York, NY 1855. Columbia 

College A.B. ’78. Columbia law School 

l.l.B. ’80. Admitted practice New York 

1880. Bangs Stetson Tracy & MacVeagh 

(and predecessor firm) (1880–94). 

President, The State Trust Company 

(1894–98). Partner, Kingsley, Mabon & 

Company (1898–1907). Member, Guthrie, 

Bangs & Van Sinderen (and predecessor 

firm) (1907–20). Director: Adams Express 

Building Company, Adams land & 

Building Company, Dodd & Childs Express Company, Hollywood 

Hotel & Cottage Company, Maryland Trust Company, Spokane & 

Eastern Trust Company, Manhattan Delivery Company, Morris 

European and American Express Company, Oregon Short line 

Railway Company. Trustee: Columbia University (1900–20), Bowery 

Savings Bank, Washington Water Power Company, Spokane, WA. 

Vestryman, Trinity Church (1898–1920). Clubs: Union league Club, 

University Club, Metropolitan Club, Century Club, Down Town 

Association, Society of Colonial Wars, St. Nicholas Society. Member: 

Advisory Committee National Underwriters (lloyds), Psi Upsilon 

Fraternity, Chamber of Commerce, American Bar Association, New 

York State Bar Association, New York County lawyers’ Association, 

Bar Association City of New York. 

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Charles Edward Tracy 

Born Utica, NY 1845. College of the City 

of New York A.B. ’65. Columbia law 

College ll.B. ’69. Member: Tracy, 

Olmstead & Tracy. Member: Drexel, 

Morgan (1886–87). Co-Founder and 

Partner: Bangs, Stetson, Tracy & 

MacVeagh (1887–96). Co-Founder: 

Association Bar City of New York 

(President 1882–83). Vestryman and 

Treasurer, St. George’s Church. Member: 

Church of the Holy Innocents. Member: 

Racket and Century Clubs. Connected with lying-in Hospital and 

Seaman’s Mission. 

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Charles W. Bangs 

Born New York, NY 1841. New York 

University Grammar School. College Hill 

(Poughkeepsie). Columbia College law 

School ’62. Member: Stetson Jennings & 

Russell (circa 1864–1910). Member: 

Association Bar City of New York. 

Member: Union league, Twilight, Tuxedo 

and lawyers’ Clubs, Hamilton Club of 

Brooklyn, long Island Historical Society, 

Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. 

22

Henry Lynde Sprague 

Born New York, NY 1851. Cornell 

University B.S. ’73. Columbia University 

ll.B. ’75. Admitted practice New York 

1875. Member: New York Assembly 1882. 

Maj. and Judge Advocate New York State 

National Guard (1884–86). School 

Trustee, New York City (1884–86). 

Member: Board of Education, New York 

City (1887–91). Member: Stetson Tracy 

Jennings & Russell (1894–1914). Member: 

New York Civil-Service Reform 

Association (Member: Executive Committee). Member: Union league 

Club of New York (Member of Executive Committee). 

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Winfred T. Denison 

Born Portland, ME 1873. Phillips Exeter 

Academy ’92. Harvard ’96. Admitted 

practice New York 1900. Member: 

Stetson Jennings & Russell (1901–06; 

1916–19) (member of firm since 1917). 

Assistant U.S. District Attorney, Southern 

District of New York (circa 1906–09). 

Assistant U.S. Attorney General (1910– 

13). Member: Philippine Commission. 

Secretary of the Interior of the Philippine 

Islands (1913–16). Member: Denison & 

Curtis (1919). Member: New York Bar Association, Civil Service 

Reform Association, National Municipal league. Member: 

Metropolitan, Chevy Chase, Harvard, City, Century, Coffee House and 

the Richmond Country Country Clubs. 

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Frederick B. Jennings 

Born Bennington Centre, VT 1853. 

Williams College A.M. ’72, A.B. Harvard 

law School ll.B. ’74. New York 

University law School ll.B. ’75. 

Admitted practice New York 1875. law 

Office of William M. Evarts (1874–79). 

Jennings & Russell (and successor firms) 

since 1879 (member of firm since 1879). 

Director: Chicago & Erie Railroad 

Company, Hudson & Manhattan Railroad 

Company, the American Trading 

Company, the First National Bank of North Bennington, The New York 

Trust Company, The International Paper Company. Trustee: Williams 

College, Barnard College. Trustee: public schools of New York City, 

the Free library, Bennington, VT, the Charity Organization Society, and 

the School of Philanthropy. Member: Bar Association City of New York 

(Vice-President), First Church of Bennington, and the Century, 

University, Union league, Metropolitan, Racquet and Tennis, New 

York Athletic, Downtown, City, Midday Railroad, and Westchester 

Country Clubs of New York, Delta Kappa Epsilon. Member: Board of 

First National Bank of North Bennington. 

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Francis Lynde Stetson 

Born Keeseville, NY 1846. Williams 

College A.M. ’67 (with honors). Columbia 

law School ll.B. ’69. Admitted practice 

New York 1869. Partnership at law 

practice with William S. Hascall. Assistant 

Corporation Counsel in New York City’s 

legal Department. Delegate to Episcopal 

conventions. Stetson, Jennings & Russell 

(and successor firms) since 1894 

(member of firm since 1894). Director: 

Erie Railroad, Cataract Construction 

Company, Niagara Development Company, Niagara Falls Power 

Company, the Erie & Jersey Railroad Company, the Chicago & Erie 

Railroad Company, the Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company, 

the Buffalo, Bellevue & lancaster Railway, the Buffalo Railway, the 

Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Railway, the Crosstown Street 

Railway, the Niagara Junction Railway, the South Carolina & Georgia 

Railway, the Southern Railway Company in Kentucky, the Southern 

Railway Company in Mississippi, the New York, Susquehanna & 

Western Railroad Company, the United States Express Company, New 

York Botanical Gardens, Cataract Construction Company (Vice- 

President). Trustee: Williams College, Phi Beta Kappa Society, Alpha 

Delta Phi fraternity, General Theological Seminary, the Dunlap Society, 

Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Geographical Society. 

Member: New York State Bar Association (President 1908–09), Bar 

Association City New York (President), Alumni Association of 

Columbia law School (President), Alpha Delta Phi club of New York 

City (President), Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity, Dunlap Society, New 

England Society, American Geographical Society, the Century, 

Metropolitan, University, Down Town, National Arts, Tuxedo, Reform, 

Churchy, Democratic, Riding and Grolier clubs of New York. 

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Ogden L. Mills 

Born Newport, RI 1884. Browning School 

(New York City). Harvard University A.B. 

’04. Harvard law School ll.B. ’07. 

Admitted practice New York 1908. 

Stetson Jennings & Russell (and 

successor firms) since 1911. Treasurer of 

New York County Republican Committee 

(1911–26); Delegate to the Republican 

National Convention 1912, 1916, and 

1917; Member: New York State Senate 

(1914–17); Chairman of the Committee on 

Affairs of the City of New York (1917); President of the New York State 

Tax Association, Republican member of the U.S. House of 

Representatives (1921–27); Appointed by President Coolidge 

Undersecretary of the Treasury (1927–32); Secretary of Treasury 

(1932–33). Military Service: U.S. Army Captain, World War I. Director: 

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, lackawanna Steel Company, 

Mergenthaler linotype Company, Shredded Wheat Company, Crex 

Carpet Company. Trustee: New York Trust Company. Author: What of 

Tomorrow? (1935), Liberalism Fights On (1936), The Seventeen Million 

(1937). Member: New York State Bar Association, New York City Bar, 

Harvard University Committee on Economics, Union Club, 

Knickerbocker Club, Racquet Club, Tennis Club, Metropolitan Club, 

Harvard Club, New York Civitan Club. 

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Charles Howland Russell 

Born New York, NY 1851. The Rectory 

School (CT). Harvard University A.B. ’72. 

Columbia law School ll.B. ’74. Admitted 

practice New York 1874. Joined Messrs. 

Evarts, Southmayd & Choate (1874). 

Private secretary to William M. Evarts, 

then United States Secretary of State 

(1877–80). Founded Jennings & Russell 

(1880). Jennings & Russell (and 

successor firms) since 1880 (1880–1921). 

Standing committee of Diocese of New 

York (1906–13; 1915–19), Board Member of Municipal Art Commission 

(1908–13), secretary of Diocese of New York (1912–13; 1917–19). 

Director: National Bank of Commerce in New York, Mexican Telegraph 

Company. Trustee: Public library, St. luke’s Hospital. Member: 

Century, Metropolitan Union, University, City, Church, Harvard, Garden 

City Golf Club, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Society of 

Cincinnati in the State of Rhode Island (President), Various 

committees of Bar Association. 

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Edward R. Greene 

Born 1861. Columbia University A.B. ’82. 

Columbia law School ll.B. ’84. Admitted 

practice New York City 1884. Vestryman, 

Holy Trinity Church. Member: Alpha Delta 

Phi fraternity, New York State Bar 

Association and City, Midday and 

Broadstreet Clubs, University Club, New 

York Athletic Club, Columbia University 

Club, Canoe Brook Country Club of 

Summit, New York. 

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George H. Gardiner 

Born Brooklyn, NY 1869. New York law 

School ll.B. Admitted practice New York 

1900. Secretary to Francis lynde Stetson 

(1893). Stenographer in the law office of 

Bangs, Tracy, Stetson & MacVeagh. 

Bangs, Tracy, Stetson & MacVeagh (and 

successor firms) since law school 

(member of firm since 1916). Vestryman, 

St. Bartholomew’s Church. Director: 

International Telegraph & Phone 

Corporation, All America Cables, 

Incorporated, Postal Telegraph & Cable Corporation, Northern Pacific 

Railroad Corporation, DiGiorgio Fruit Corporation. Member: New York 

City Bar Association, American Bar Association, New York State Bar 

Association, New York County lawyers Association, Crescent Athletic 

Club, Garden City Golf Club, India House, Broad Street Club, Hangar 

Club. 

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Charles MacVeagh 

Born Westchester, PA 1860. Harvard law 

’81. Columbia ll.B. ’83. Admitted 

practice 1883. U.S. Steel General 

Solicitor and Assistant to General 

Counsel (1901–25). U.S. Ambassador to 

Japan (1925–29). Stetson Jennings & 

Russell (and successor firms) since 1883 

(member of firm since 1930). World War I: 

Vice President and Securities Counsel, 

Fatherless Children of France; President, 

Immediate Relief to Italy Fund. Trustee: 

Institution for the Improved Instruction of Deaf Mutes. Member: 

Century Club of New York, Metropolitan Club, University Club of New 

York. 

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Lansing P. Reed 

Born New York, NY 1882. Phillips 

Andover Academy. Yale ’04. Harvard law 

School ’08. Admitted practice 1908. 

Director: Guaranty Trust Company of New 

York (1924). Director: International 

Telephone and Telegraph Corporation 

(1933). Counsel for International 

Telephone (1928). Director: Standard 

Brands, Inc. (1930). Partner, Stetson, 



Trustee: New York Public library, Union Theological Seminary, Miss 

Chapin’s School, Phillips Andover Academy. President: Alumni Group 

of Dwight Hall. Chairman: Yale Alumni Fund, Madison Avenue 

Presbyterian Church. Director: Young Men’s Christian Association of 

New York. Member: Century Association, links Club, Downtown Club, 

Yale Club, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, New York 

State Bar Association. 

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Henry Clay Alexander 

Born Murfreesboro, TN 1902. Vanderbilt 

’23. Yale ll.B. ’25. Admitted practice 

1925. Davis Polk & Wardwell since 1925 

(member of firm since 1935). Partner, J.P. 

Morgan (1939). World War II: Vice 

Chairman, Russian War Relief (1942). Vice 

Chairman, United States Strategic 

Bombing Survey. Post World War II. 

Headed drive for Korean War Relief 

(1952). Treasurer, Downtown lower 

Manhattan Association (1956). Trustee: 

Vice President, Presbyterian Hospital Board of Trustees (1955). 

Vanderbilt University. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1960). Cordell Hull 

Foundation (1951). General Motors Board of Directors (1949). 

Chairman: Morgan Guarantee Trust Company (1965). Metropolitan 

Museum of Art. United States Churchill Foundation. 

33

Frank L. Polk 

Born New York, NY 1871. Groton School, 

MA ’90. Yale B.A. ’94. Columbia ll.B. 

’97. Clerk at Evarts, Choate and Beaman 

(1897–1900). Captain and asst. on the 

Quartermaster Staff of General Ernst’s 

Brigade (1898–99). Founding partner of 

Alexander, Watriss and Polk (1900). 

Member: New York City Board of 

Education, President, Municipal Civil 

Service Commission of the City of New 

York (1907–09). Treasurer, Bureau of 

Municipal Research (1911–13). Corporation Counsel of the City of 

New York (1914–15). Counselor of the State Department (1915–19). 

Acting Secretary of State (1918–19). Under Secretary of State (1919– 

20). Headed American Commission to Negotiate Peace in Paris 

(1919). Founded Davis Polk Wardwell Gardiner & Reed (1920). 

Managed John W. Davis’s presidential campaign (1924). Trustee: 

President, New York Public library, The Boy Scouts, Salvation Army, 

Church Pension Fund, Citizens Crime Commission, Pan-American 

Society, New York Hospital. Member: Institution of Human Relations 

Advisory Committee. 

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Otis T. Bradley 

Born New Haven, CT 1895. Derby, CT 

High School ’11. Yale A.B. ’15, Phi Beta 

Kappa. Harvard ll.B. ’19. Admitted 

practice New York 1920; U.S. Supreme 

Court, C.C.A. (2nd), Southern District of 

New York and other Federal courts. 


successor firms) since 1919 (member of 

firm since 1930). World War I: U.S. Army, 

Coast Artillery; commissioned 2nd 

lieutenant 1917; discharged Captain 

1919; 56th Artillery, C.A.C., France (Second Battle of the Marne, 

Meuse-Argonne) (1918). World War II: Selective Service, Associate 

Government Appeal Agent (local Board 51, New York City). Director: 

Union Fabric Company, F. Kelly Company, Steels & Busks ltd., long 

Island Association, Westhampton Association. Trustee: Union College, 

Union Theological Seminary, Board of National Missions of 

Presbyterian Church in U.S.A., Chapin School, Chapin-Brearley 

Exchange, Buckley Foundation, Southampton Hospital, Madison 

Avenue Presbyterian Church. Government Appeal Agent, Selective 

Service, local Board No. 4. Member: American Bar Association, New 

York State Bar Association (Vice President and Chair Executive 

Committee), New York County lawyers’ Association (Director: 

1941–46), New York City Bar Association. 

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Carroll H. Brewster 

Born New Rochelle, NY 1888. New York 

Public Schools. New York law School 

1910–11. Admitted practice New York, 

C.C.A. (2nd) Southern District of New 

York Eastern District of New York 1912. 

Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle 

1911–18. Stetson Jennings & Russell (and 


firm since 1930). World War I: U.S. 

Department of labor, Washington, D.C., 

Treasurer, U.S. Housing Corporation 

(1918–20). World War II: Selective Service, Member, Appeal Board No. 

5, New York City (1942–45); Selective Service Medal. 

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Marion N. Fisher 

Born Emmerton, VA 1890. Randolph- 

Macon Academy ’07. Randolph-Macon 

A.B. ’11. Instructor, Randolph–Macon 

Academy 1911–12. Georgetown ll.B. 

(cum laude) ’15. Admitted practice 

Virginia 1915; District of Columbia 1927; 

New York 1932; U.S. Supreme Court 

1931; C.C.A. (2nd) 1935; Southern 

District of New York 1932; and other 

Federal courts. Instructor, Alexandria, VA 

Public Schools 1912–15. Independent 

practice (Roanoke, VA) 1916–17. Virginia Industrial Commission, 

Examiner 1919–24. Bureau of Internal Revenue (Washington, D.C.), 

Special Counsel 1924–28. Davis Polk Wardwell Gardiner & Reed (and 

successor firm) since 1928 (member of firm since 1937). World War I: 

U.S. Army, Coast Artillery; enlisted private 1917; discharged 1st 

lieutenant 1919; Fort Monroe, VA (1917–18), France (1918–19). 

Member: American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, 

New York County lawyers’ Association, New York City Bar 

Association. 

37

Allen Wardwell 

Born New York, NY 1873. Cutler, New 

York City ’91. Yale A.B. ’95. Harvard ll.B. 

’98. Admitted practice New York 1898; 

Southern District of New York, Eastern 

District of New York and other Federal 

courts. Stetson Jennings & Russell (and 


firm since 1909). World War I: Major, 

American Red Cross Mission to Russia 

(1917–18). World War II: Chair, American 

Red Cross Mission to Russia (1941). 

Trustee: Bank of New York, Juilliard Musical Foundation (Honorary 

Trustee), St. John’s Guild (1st Vice President). Director: Juilliard 

School of Music, The legal Aid Society (President: 1926–36), 

Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc., Russian Student Fund, Inc. 

(Vice-Chair of Board), Tolstoy Foundation, Inc., St. luke’s International 

Medical Centre (American Council), The Church life Insurance 

Corporation (and member of Executive Committee), The Church Fire 

Insurance Corporation. Honorary Chair, Board of Directors, National 

Information Bureau, Inc. Vice President and Trustee, Church Pension 

Fund. Vestryman, St. George’s Church. Former Vice-President, New 

York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital. Member: Board of 

Managers, State Charities Aid Association. Chair of the Board, 

National Orchestral Association. Trustee: McAuley Water Street 

Mission. Vice President: Civil Service Reform Association. Chair of 

Board, Citizens Committee on the Courts, Inc. Member: Advisory 

Committee, National Association legal Aid Organizations. Member: 

American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, New York 

County lawyers’ Association, New York City Bar Association 

(President: 1943–45). 

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John W. Davis 

Born Clarksburg, WV 1873. Pantops 

Academy (Charlottesville, VA) 1887–89. 

Washington and lee A.B. ’92, Phi Beta 

Kappa; ll.B. ’95. Honorary ll.D.: 

Washington and lee ’15, West Virginia 

’19, Birmingham (England) ’19, Glasgow 

(Scotland) ’20, Union ’21, Yale ’21, 

Dartmouth ’23, Brown ’23, Princeton ’24, 

Oberlin ’46, D.C.l. Oxford University 

(England) ’50, New York University ’51, 

Columbia University ’53, Hofstra College 

’53. Honorary bencher, Middle Temple (England). Admitted practice 

West Virginia 1895; New York 1921; U.S. Supreme Court, C.A. (2nd 

Cir.), Southern District of New York and other Federal courts. Assistant 

Professor of law, Washington and lee, 1896–97. Davis & Davis 

(Clarksburg) 1897–1913. President, West Virginia Bar Association 

1906. Member: West Virginia House of Delegates 1899. Member: (1st 

West Virginia District), U.S. House of Representatives (62nd and 63rd 

Congresses) 1911–13. Solicitor General of the United States 1913–18. 

World War I: Counselor, American Red Cross (1913–18); Member: U.S. 

delegation conference on treatment and exchange of war prisoners 

(Berne, Switzerland) (1918). U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain 

1918–21. Stetson Jennings Russell & Davis (and predecessor firm) 

1921–24. Democratic Candidate for President of the United States 

1924. Davis Polk Wardwell Gardiner & Reed (and successor firm) since 

1925. Director: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 

Guaranty Trust Company of New York, U.S. Rubber Company. 

Trustee: Mutual life Insurance Company of New York, Metropolitan 

Museum of Art, Morgan library. Member: American Bar Association 

(President: 1922), New York State Bar Association, New York County 

lawyers’ Association, New York City Bar Association (President: 

1931–32). Mason 33°; G.B.E. (British) 1953. 

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Montgomery B. Angell 

Born Rochester, NY 1889. East High 

School (Rochester) ’07. Princeton litt. B. 

(cum laude) ’11. Harvard ll.B. (cum 

laude) ’15, law Review. Admitted practice 

New York 1916; U.S. Supreme Court, 

C.A. (2nd Cir.), U.S. Tax Court, U.S. Court 

of Claims and other Federal courts. I.C.C. 

(Washington, D.C.), Examiner and 

Assistant to General Counsel 1915–17. 

Spooner & Cotton 1917. U.S. Treasury 

Department (Washington, D.C.) and 

Federal Reserve Board (Washington, D.C.), General Counsel’s Office 

1919–21. Stetson Jennings & Russell (and successor firms) since 

1921 (member of firm since 1927). Author: The Non-Resident Alien; a 

Problem in Federal Taxation of Income (1936) 36 Col. l. Rev. 908; Tax 

Evasion and Tax Avoidance (1938) 38 Col. l. Rev. 80; Procedural 

Reform in the Judicial Review of Controversies under the Internal 

Revenue Statutes (1939) 34 Ill. l. Rev. 151; The Impact of the Law of 

Powers upon Our Internal Revenue Acts (1941) 39 Mich. l. Rev. 1269; 

Valuation Problems in Federal Taxation (revised 1957), Practising law 

Institute; various papers on tax subjects presented to the Tax Forum, 

New York City. World War I: U.S. Army, Infantry; commissioned 

Captain 1917; discharged Major 1919; C.O. 1st Bn., 321st Infantry, 

81st Infantry Division, France (Vosges; Meuse-Argonne) (1917–19); 

Croix de Guerre with gold star, French Army Corps Citation. 

Vestryman, Church of St. Philips (Garrison, NY). Member: American 

Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, New York County 

lawyers Association, New York City Bar Association. 

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Thomas O’Gorman FitzGibbon 

Born New York, NY 1900. DeWitt Clinton 

High School, New York City ’18. 

Columbia A.B. ’22. Columbia ll.B. ’24. 

Admitted practice New York 1924; U.S. 

Supreme Court 1930; C.A. (2nd Cir.) 

1928; Southern District of New York 

1924; and other Federal courts; I.C.C. 

1928. Stetson Jennings & Russell (and 



Infantry; Private (1918–19). World War II: 

War Department, Washington, D.C., Special Consultant to Under- 

Secretary of War (1942–44), W.D. representative and head, U.S. 

mission on U.S.-U.K. Patent Interchange Agreement, london (1943). 

Author: The Present Status of the Six Months’ Rule, 34 Col. l. Rev. 

230. Director and Member: Dom Mocquereau Schola Cantorum 

Foundation, Inc. Member: The Pilgrims, Knights of Malta, American 

Bar Association (Member: Corporation Section), New York State Bar 

Association, New York County lawyers Association, New York City 

Bar Association (Chair: Fellowship Committee), Interstate Commerce 

Commission Practitioners, Guild of Catholic lawyers. Trustee: 

Columbia University. Member: Board of Advisors, Columbia law 

School Alumni Association. Member: Board of Consulters, Villanova 

University law School. 

41

Edwin S.S. Sunderland 

Born Great Bend, KS 1887. Mt. Hermon, MA 

’07. Middlebury A.B. ’11. New York law 

School ll.B. ’13. Honorary ll.D., 

Middlebury ’46. Admitted practice New York 

1914; U.S. Supreme Court 1922; C.A. (2nd 

Cir.) 1918; Southern District of New York 

1915; U.S. C.C.A.; 8th Cir. 1924; 5th Cir. 

1928; 9th Cir. 1928; 7th Cir. 1929; 6th Cir. 

1929; 10th Cir. 1930; 4th Cir. 1931; 3rd Cir. 

1932; 1st Cir. 1936; I.C.C. 1930. Stetson 



Member: lexington Group of Authors. Author: Bonds (1922); Railroad 

Reorganizations (1936); Corporate Reorganizations (1938); Will Our 

Railroads in the Present Emergency Again Make the Contribution They Did 

in Respect to World Wars I and II? (1950); Brief History of the Reorganization 

of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company (1948); 

Legislative Developments Affecting the Credit of Railroads and Their Ability 

to Meet Emergency Transportation Demands (1950); Illinois Central 

Railroad–The Simplification of Its Debt Structure, 1938–1952; The Cornwall 

Vermont Congregational Church, 1803–1953; St. Luke’s Hospital–A Venture 

in Faith (1952); Middlebury College–An Investment in Youth (1954); The 

University Club Yesterday and Today (1955); Abraham Lincoln and the 

Illinois Central Railroad, the Main Line of Mid-America, The Simplification of 

its Debt Structure through 1955; Old Wheatsheaf Farm (1955); The 

Northfield Schools–Youth’s Heritage–Founded in Faith–Maintained with 

Devotion (1956); Opportunities to Assist Our Railroads–the Transportation 

Act of 1958; Procedures in Connection with the Reorganization of Railroads 

and Suggestions for Improvement in Section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act 

(1958). World War I: Squadron A, New York City; service on U.S.-Mexican 

border (1916–17). Member: Selective Service legal Advisory Board (New 

York City, 1917); registrar, National Selective Service (1918). Chair, Special 

Committee appointed by the Judges of the U.S. District Court, Southern 

District of New York, and of the C.A. (2nd Cir.) on General Bankruptcy Rules 

(1934–38). International Committee of Bankers on Mexico. Director: St. 

Debt and Railways (1919– ). Chair: Compromise Committee appointed by 

U.S. District Courts in reorganizations of New York, New Haven and 

Hartford Railroad Company (1941) and Seaboard Airline Railway Company 

(1943). Counsel, Reorganization Committee, and Director 1935–46: New 

York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad; Counsel to reorganization 

managers K.C., Ft. Scott & Memphis Ry. Committee; Counsel Trustee 

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Central of Ga. Ry. 1942–48; Counsel R.F.C. Ry. matters, New York & B & O 

Reorganization 1938–44; Counsel A.P. Giannini, merger Bank of America, 

Committee Executive Bank of New York & Bowery & East River National 

Bank of New York; Counsel to Special Committee of Savings Banks 

Association of State of New York in re Codification of the Banking law of 

State of New York. Director: Bank of America N.A., New York 1925–29; 

Boorum Pease & Company, Director and Member: Executive Committee 

C.R.I. & P. Ry. Company 1938–46; Illinois Central Railroad Company 

(Director, Member: Executive Committee; New York Counsel), Illinois Central 

Industries, Inc. Member: Executive Committee. Director: Honorary Chair 

Conference, Railway General Counsel, 6 East 72nd Street Corporation 

(President). Member: law Reform Committee of New York Chamber of 

Commerce. Trustee: U.S. Trust Company of New York; Middlebury College; 

Counsel to reorganization managers Missouri Pacific Railroad System; St. 

Mark’s School (Southborough, MA). Honorary Trustee, Northfield Schools 

(East Northfield, MA, Honorary Chair Board of Trustees and Chair, Finance 

Committee); Honorary Trustee, Boys’ Club, New York City. Manager and 

Chair: Finance Committee, Havens Relief Fund Society. Chair, Executive 

Committee and Secretary, Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation. Member: Board of 

Managers, St. luke’s Hospital (President: 1949–52). Member: Executive 

Committee and Secretary, The Episcopal Church Foundation. Member: 

American Bar Association (Member: Committee on Reorganization), 

American law Institute (life), New York State Bar Association (Member: 

Committee on Federal Constitution, Committee on Federal legislation), 

New York County lawyers Association (Member: Committee on Federal 

Courts), New York City Bar Association, Fellow: American Bar Foundation 

(1955), American Society International law, American Judicature Society, 

American Foreign law Association, National Bankruptcy Conference (Chair: 

Committee on Reorganization), New York State Chamber of Commerce 

(Member: law Reform Committee), Committee on Medicine and Ministry of 

New York Academy of Med. Director: Morningside Heights, Inc. Trustee: 

Foreign Policy Association, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum City of 

New York, English-Speaking Union of U.S., New York Botanical Gardens, 

Automobile Club of America, Automobile Club of New York, New England 

Society, Vermont Society, Association Ex-mems. Squadron A.S.R.S.A.R. 

Director: Manhattanville Neighborhood Center, Inc. 1950–56; Vestryman: St. 

James Episcopal Church (New York City, 1931–56) (Clerk, 1940–56). 

President: University Club 1946–49. Member: Union Club, D.K.E., Phi Delta 

Phi, Mason 32°, since 1910, K.T., Shriner, laymen’s Award, Vermont 

Education Association. Citation delivered at laymen’s Award Dinner, Hotel 

Vermont, Burlington, VT, October 19, 1961. Century Association, Down 

Town Association, links, Broad St., Somerset Hills, Anglers, Pilgrims, 

Economics, City, Church, Holland lodge, NY, Met. (Washington), Jekyll 

Island, GA 1926–49 (Director), Sebatis Salmon (N.B.) (Director Treas.) 

1926–56; Pinnacle Club of New York, National lawyers Club, Washington, 

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D.C., Wall Street Club.

Hall Park McCullough 

Born San Francisco, CA 1872. Wilson 

and Kellogg, New York City ’90. Yale A.B. 

’94. New York law School ll.B. ’96. 

Honorary ll.D.: Middlebury ’52, 

Bennington ’56. Admitted practice New 

York 1896. Stetson Tracy Jennings & 


(member of firm since 1909). Director: 

The New York Historical Society, First 

National Bank of North Bennington, VT 

(President). North Bennington Water 

Board. Trustee: Middlebury College, Bennington Museum (President), 

Bennington Free library (Treasurer), John G. McCullough Free library 

(North Bennington), Putnam Hospital (Bennington), Mt. Anthony 

Corporation. Vice-President, Society for the Preservation of New 

England Antiquities (Boston). Member: American Bar Association, 

New York State Bar Association, New York County lawyers 

Association, New York City Bar Association. 

44

Edgar G. Crossman 

Born lisbon, NH 1895. Andover ’13. Yale 

B.A. ’17, English. Harvard ll.B. ’22. 




1931; I.C.C. Winthrop & Stimson 

1922–25. Davis Polk Wardwell Gardiner & 

Reed (and successor firm) 1925–28; since 

1929 (member of firm since 1934). legal 

Adviser, Governor-General Philippines 

1928–29. American Chair, joint American- 

Philippine Finance Commission (personal representative of the 

President of U.S., with the rank of Minister) 1947. World War I: U.S. 

Army, Field Artillery; lieutenant 4th F.A., U.S. (1917–19). World War II: 

U.S. Army; commissioned lieutenant Colonel 1944; discharged 

Colonel 1945; civil affairs, GHQ, SWPA, USAFFE and AFPAC, 

Australia, New Guinea, Philippines (1944–45); legion of Merit, 

Philippines Distinguished Service Star. Member: American Bar 

Association, New York State Bar Association, New York County 


45

J. Howland Auchincloss 

Born New York, NY 1886. Groton ’04. 

Yale A.B. ’08. Harvard ll.B. ’11. Admitted 

practice New York 1912; C.A. (2nd Cir.) 





Field Artillery Central Officers Training 

School, Camp Zachary Taylor, KY (1918). 

World War II: Selective Service, Associate 

Government Appeal Agent (local Board 

40), New York City (1942–45). Member: American Bar Association, 


Association, New York City Bar Association. 

46

George A. Brownell 

Born New York, NY 1898. Pomfret ’15. 

Harvard A.B. ’19; A.M. ’20; ll.B. ’22. 

Ames Competition (winning oralist), 

President, Harvard legal Aid Society. 


Supreme Court 1932; C.A. (2nd Cir.), 

Southern District of New York 1922. 




Field Artillery 1, Private, 2nd lieutenant 

World War II: Selective Service, Chair, Appeal Board No. 5, New York 

City (1940–42); Selective Service Medal; U.S. Army Air Force, 

lieutenant Colonel, Colonel, Brigadier General; Executive Officer to 

Assistant Secretary of War for Air; Distinguished Service Medal (U.S.); 

Order of Southern Cross (Commander) (Brazil). Personal 

Representative (rank of Minister) of President of the U.S. to India and 

Middle East (1946), to Mexico (1948); Special Assistant to Secretary of 

Air Force (1950–51). Council on Foreign Relations. Trustee: Brooklyn 

Savings Bank 1965–73. Member: Board of Overseers of Harvard 

College 1960–66. (Overseers Committee to Visit the law School 

1937–52, 1960–66, 1968–74.) Trustee: leake & Watts Children’s Home 

(Chair: 1966–74), The Seeing Eye, Inc. (1939-75), New York University 

Medical Center and Army Relief Society. Honorary Trustee: lenox Hill 

Hospital, New York University Medical Center, Community Service 

Society. Director and Executive Committee: New York World’s Fair I 

1937–41. Fellow: American Bar Foundation. Member: American law 

Institute, American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association 

(Committee on Corporation law: 1946–67); New York County lawyers 

Association (Director: 1935–41; William Nelson Cromwell Medal); New 

York City Bar Association (Executive Committee: 1936–43; Chair, 

Committee on Professional Responsibility 1963–69; Vice-President: 

1968–70); New York law Institute. Director: The legal Aid Society 

1970– . President, Harvard law School Association of New York City 

1968–69. 

47

Leighton H. Coleman 

Born Bethlehem, PA 1897. Taft ’14. 

Williams A.B. ’19, History, Economics. 

Harvard ll.B. ’22. Admitted practice New 

York 1924; Southern District of New York 

1932; and other Federal courts; I.C.C. 




enlisted aviation cadet 1917; discharged 

1st lieutenant 1919; pursuit pilot. 

Trustee: Church Pension Fund and 

affiliated companies (Member: Executive Committee) (1942–67), St. 

luke’s International Medical Centre (Tokyo), Village of the Head-ofthe-Harbor 

(l.I.) (1936–76) (Member: Planning Board). Vestryman, St. 

James Church, St. James, long Island (1936–63). Director: Society for 

the Preservation of long Island Antiquities (Director Emeritus). 

Director: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (1959–68) (Director 

Emeritus), R. J. Reynolds Industries Inc., American Petrofina 

Incorporated (1960–70), Aztec land and Cattle Company, Melville 

Corporation. Member: American Bar Association, New York State Bar 


Bar Association. Fellow: American Bar Foundation, American law 

Institute. 

48

William C. Cannon 

Born Andover, NY 1873. Andover High 

School ’90. Alfred Ph.B. ’94. Harvard 

ll.B. ’00. Honorary ll.D.: Alfred ’26; 

Seton Hall ’36; Honorary D.C.l. Canisius 


U.S. Supreme Court, C.A. (2nd Cir.), 

Southern District of New York and other 

Federal courts. Moot Sprague Brownell & 

Marcy (Buffalo, NY) (1900–02). Erie 

Railroad Company, legal Department, 

Claims Attorney (1902–06). Stetson 

Jennings & Russell (and successor firms) since 1906 (member of firm 

since 1915). Adviser, American law Institute Restatement of the law 

of Security. Director: Salisbury Bank & Trust Company (Salisbury, CT); 

Empire State Foundation of Independent liberal Arts Colleges, 775 

Park Avenue Inc.; Honorary Chair of the Board of Trustees, Alfred 

University. Member: American Bar Association, New York State Bar 


Bar Association, American law Institute, International law 

Association (Honorary Vice President, American Branch), American 

Judicature Society, American Society of International law, New York 

law Institute, Cardinal’s Committee of the laity, Knights of Malta. 

49

John C. Hover 

Born Bellefontaine, OH 1901. 

Bellefontaine High School ’19. Harvard 

A.B. ’23, Economics, History, 

Government. Yale ll.B. ’27. St. 

lawrence, graduate law courses 1928. 

Admitted practice Ohio 1927; New York 


1930; U.S. Tax Court 1934. Kirlin, 

Woolsey, Campbell, Hickox & Keating 

1926–28. National City Bank Trust 

Department, 1928–29. Sullivan & 

Cromwell 1929–44. Davis Polk Wardwell Sunderland & Kiendl (and 

successor firm) since 1944 (member of firm since 1951). World War I: 

Plattsburg 1918. Elder, former Chair law Committee, former Chair 

Board of Trustees Congregational Church, Short Hills. Member: 


County lawyers Association, New York City Bar Association, Federal 

Bar Association, American Judicature Society, logan County, Ohio 

Bar Association. 

50

Ewen Cameron MacVeagh 

Born Santa Barbara, CA 1895. Groton 

’14. Harvard A.B. ’18; ll.B. ’23. Admitted 


Court, C.A. (2nd Ctr.) 1948; Southern 

District of New York 1925. Girard Trust 

Company (Philadelphia) 1919. Trojan Tool 

Corporation, New York City 1919–20. 

Covington, Burling & Rublee (Washington, 

D.C.) 1924–26. Davis Polk Wardwell 

Gardiner & Reed (and successor firms) 


Author: The Yankee in the British Zone (with lee D. Brown), Putnam 

(1920). World War I: U.S. Army, Field Artillary; commissioned 2nd 

lieutenant 1917; discharged Captain 1919; battery C.O., 1st Division, 

assistant G-2, II Corps, France (luneville, Toul (Mont. Sec.), Somme, 

Hindenburg line) (1917–19). Counsel, American Standstill Committee, 

German Debt Conference, london 1952–53. Director: Texas 

Instruments Incorporated (1953–70), Honorary Director 1970– . 

President & Director: Doctors Hospital. Honorary Chair, Trustee: Ira 

Davenport Memorial Hospital (Bath, NY). Vestryman, Church of the 

Epiphany, New York City, Emmanuel Church (Dublin, NH). Member: 


County lawyers Association, New York City Bar Association. 

51

Walter D. Fletcher 

Born Heuvelton, NY 1896. Heuvelton 

High School ’14. Columbia A.B. ’18; M.A. 

’22; ll.B. ’22. ll.D. (Honorary) Alfred 

University ’57. ll.D. (Honorary) Columbia 

University ’65. Admitted practice New 

York 1922; Southern District of New York 

1945. Deputy Attorney General, State of 

New York 1923. Stetson Jennings & 



U.S.N.R.F., Air Service, pilot. World War II: 

Selective Service, Member, local Board, New York City. Counsellor in 

Residence, University of Virginia law School. President, Director and 

Member: The Dom Mocquereau Foundation, Inc.; Trustee Emeritus, 

Columbia University; Trustee: Columbia University Press, St. John’s 

Guild City of New York (Honorary). Member: Board of Governors 

Federal Hall Memorial Associates, Inc. Member: Humanitarian law 

Commission International Red Cross. Member: American Red Cross 

Delegation, league of Red Cross Societies. Special Volunteer Counsel 

American National Red Cross. Counsel, American Red Cross in 

Greater New York. Director and Member: Executive Committee City 

Investing Company; Director, Chair of Board, Torsion Balance 

Company. Director: Union Pacific Railroad Company, Union Pacific 

Railroad Corp., los Angeles & Salt lake Railroad Company, 

Merchant-Sterling Corporation, Orama Securities Corporation, Oregon 

Short line Railroad Company, Oregon-Washington Railroad & 

Navigation Company, Sterling Iron and Railway Company. Trustee: 

New York Racing Association. Member: The Jockey Club. Member 

and Director: Virginia Thoroughbred Association, Thoroughbred 

Owners and Breeders Association. Member: American and New York 

State Bar Associations, New York County lawyers Association, New 

York City Bar Association. 

52

Edward R. Wardwell 

Born lawrence, NY 1904. Groton ’23. 

Yale A.B. ’27, English. Columbia ll.B. 


C.A. (2nd Cir.) 1936; Southern District of 

New York 1935; and other Federal courts. 

Davis Polk Wardwell Gardiner & Reed 


(member of firm since 1946) (European 

office 1962–64). World War II: U.S. Army 

Air Force; commissioned Captain 1942; 

discharged lieutenant Colonel 1945; legal 

officer, Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH (1942–45); 

legion of Merit. Warden, Church of the Epiphany; Trustee: St. John’s 

Guild. President and Director: The Chamber Music Society of lincoln 

Center, Inc. Director: lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. 


New York County lawyers Association, New York City Bar 

Association. 

53

Frederick A.O. Schwarz 

Born New York, NY 1902. The Hill School 

’20. Harvard A.B. (summa cum laude) ’24, 

economics, history, Phi Beta Kappa; 

ll.B. (magna cum laude) ’27, law 

Review. Admitted practice New York 

1929; C.A. (2nd Cir.), Southern District of 

New York 1938. Davis Polk Wardwell 



Director: General Mills, Inc., The Chubb 

Corporation, Federal Insurance Company, 

Vigilant Insurance Company, Pullman Incorporated. Trustee: United 

States Trust Company of New York, The Presbyterian Hospital of New 

York City, Provident loan Society, The Frick Collection. Member: 


County lawyers Association, New York City Bar Association. General 

Counsel to United States High Commissioner for Germany 1953–54. 

Overseer of Harvard College 1956–62. President, Harvard Alumni 

Association 1964–65. 

54

Michael W. Leisure 

Born New York, NY 1935. Buckley School 

’48. Choate School ’53. Yale B.A. ’57, 

English. Virginia ll.B. ’62, law Review 

(Articles Editor). Military service: 

Commissioned Ensign U.S.N.R. 1957; 

released lieutenant (j.g.) 1959, active 

duty U.S. Pacific Fleet. Admitted practice 


1966; C.A. (2nd Cir.) 1963; Southern 

District of New York, Eastern District of 

New York 1963; U.S. Customs Court 

1970. Associate, Donovan leisure Newton & Irvine 1962–66. Special 

Deputy Attorney General of New York, Bureau of Election Frauds 

1963. Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York 

1966–70. Davis Polk & Wardwell since 1970 (member of firm since 

1974). Member: American Bar Association, New York State Bar 

Association (Member: Committee on Federal Courts), New York City 

Bar Association (Member: Committee on Professional & Judicial 

Ethics 1968–71), New York County lawyers Association, American 

Judicature Society, Federal Bar Council. 

55

Peter C. McBean 

Born Duluth, MN 1920. Bronxville, NY 

High School ’38. Dartmouth A.B. (cum 

laude) ’42, Political Science, Economics. 

Columbia ll.B. ’48. Admitted practice 

New York 1949; Southern District of New 

York, Eastern District of New York 1953; 

Tax Court 1951. Davis Polk Wardwell 

Sunderland & Kiendl (and successor firm) 


Member: New York State Bar Association, 

New York City Bar Association, American 

Bar Association. Vice President and Trustee: St. John’s Guild. 

Director: Orama Securities Corporation, Merchant-Sterling 

Corporation, Sterling Iron & Railway Company. World War II: U.S. 

Army, Infantry; enlisted Private 1942; discharged Captain 1945; 35th 

Division, Normandy, Central France, Ardennes, Rhineland, Central 

Europe (1944–45); Purple Heart, Bronze Star Medal. 

56

Morton L. Fearey II 

Born New York, NY 1913. Salisbury ’31. 

Yale A.B. ’35, history, English. Yale ll.B. 

’38, law Journal (Comment Editor). 

Admitted practice New York 1939; 

Southern District of New York 1946. Davis 

Polk Wardwell Gardiner & Reed (and 


firm since 1951). World War II: U.S.N.R.; 

commissioned lieutenant (j.g.) 1942; 

discharged lieutenant Commander 1946; 

ground officer, patrol squadron, 

Caribbean, West Coast and South Pacific (1942–44); Bureau of 

Aeronautics, Washington, D.C. (1945–46). Director (Executive 

Committee): General Portland Cement Company, The North Atlantic 

life Insurance Company of America. Member: New York State Bar 

Association, New York City Bar Association, American Bar 

Association. 

57

Theodore Kiendl 

Born Brooklyn, NY 1890. Boys’ High 

School, Brooklyn, NY ’06. Columbia A.B. 



Court 1920; Southern District of New 

York 1917; Eastern District of New York 

1923; and other Federal courts. Kiendl & 

Sons 1913–16. Stetson Jennings & 



Squadron A, New York City; service on 

U.S.-Mexican border (1916–17). Trial Examiner Communist teachers’ 

trial Board of Education, City of New York 1950; Special Assistant 

Attorney General and Special Counsel to the New York State Crime 

Commission in charge of the waterfront investigation (1952–53). 


New York County lawyers Association (Governor; Member: Judiciary 

Committee; Vice President), New York City Bar Association (Vice- 

President: 1940–41; Chair: Committee to Cooperate with Judicial 

Council). 

58

D. Nelson Adams 

Born New York, NY 1909. Hotchkiss ’28. 

Yale A.B. ’32, history, English. Harvard 

ll.B. (magna cum laude) ’35, law Review 

(President). Admitted practice New York 

1937; U.S. Supreme Court 1946; C.A. 

(2nd Cir.) 1956; C.A. (3rd Cir.) 1947; U.S. 

Court of Claims 1960; Southern District of 

New York 1955; U.S. Tax Court 1942. law 

Secretary Judge learned Hand (C.A. (2nd 

Cir.)) 1935–36. Davis Polk Wardwell 


since 1936 (member of firm since 1949). World War II: U.S. Army Air 

Forces; commissioned 2nd lieutenant 1942; discharged lieutenant 

Colonel 1946; legal officer, Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, 

OH, and Hq. AAF. Washington, D.C. (1943–46); legion of Merit. 

Author: Exploring the Outer Boundaries of the Crane Doctrine, 21 Tax 

l. Rev. 159 (1966); Tax Benefits of a Loss Corporation, J. of Taxation 

(March 1968). President: Harvard law School Alumni Association; 

Member: Board of Managers (Executive Committee), State 

Communities Aid Association; American law Institute (Member: Tax 

Advisory Group); American Bar Association, New York State Bar 


Bar Association (Member: Committee on Tax Problems of the 

Professions, Chair, Audit Committee, former Chair, Executive 

Committee and Vice President), Chair, lawyers Against Unfair Multiple 

Taxation of Professionals. Trustee: Church Pension Fund (Executive 

Committee), Buckley School Executive Committee. Director: The 

Chubb Corporation, Federal Insurance Company, Vigilant Insurance 

Company, New York State Bar Foundation, The Depression and Manic 

Depression Foundation, Dixon Gallery and Gardens. 

59

Ralph M. Carson 

Born Indianapolis, IN 1896. Ann Arbor, MI 

High School ’13. Michigan A.B. ’17, 

Classics, English, Phi Beta Kappa. 

Instructor in English at Michigan 1917–19. 

Oxford B.A. (Jurisprudence) ’22, Rhodes 

Scholar; President, Union Society (1922). 

Michigan J. D. ’23, ll.D. (Honorary) ’59. 




1927; and other Federal courts. Stetson 

Jennings & Russell (and successor firms) since 1923 (member of firm 

since 1935). World War I: U.S.N.R.; A. S., Ann Arbor, MI 1918. Author: 

Current Phases of Derivative Actions Against Directors, 40 Mich. l. 

Rev. 1125 (1942); Further Phases of Derivative Actions Against 

Directors, 29 Corn. l.Q. 431 (1944); Conduct of an Appeal, American 

law Institute (1966); Attorney-Client Privilege, Fordham law Institute 

(1959); Disadvantages of Federal Constitutional Convention, 66 Mich. 

l. Rev. 921 (1968). Editor: Jurisprudence in Action (Baker, Voorhis 

1953). Member: American Bar Association, New York County lawyers 

Association, New York City Bar Association. Chair: Committee on 

Post-Admission legal Education (1949–52). 

60

David A. Lindsay 

Born New York, NY 1921. St. Paul’s ’40. 

Yale A.B. ’44, History, Phi Beta Kappa. 

Yale ll.B. ’49, law Journal. Admitted 


Court 1953; C.A. (2nd Cir.) 1949; 

Southern District of New York 1957; U.S. 

Tax Court 1951; U.S. Court of Claims 

1957; Court of Military Appeals 1959. 

Davis Polk Wardwell Sunderland & Kiendl 

(and successor firm) 1949–57; since 1960 

(member of firm since 1957; since 1960). 

World War II: U.S.N.R.; commissioned Ensign 1943; discharged 

lieutenant 1946; destroyer escort, gunnery, executive officer, convoy 

duty Mediterranean, North Atlantic and Pacific 1944–45. Assistant to 

Secretary of Treasury and Head, legal Advisory Staff (1958–59); 

General Counsel of Treasury (1960). Vice Chair, Yale Alumni Fund. 


New York City Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, American 

Judicature Society, American law Institute, Tax Institute. 

61

George W. Palmer 

Born New York, NY 1900. Polytechnical 

Preparatory ’17. Williams A.B. ’21, 

history, economics. Columbia J.D. ’24, 

Temple Moot Court. Admitted practice 

New York 1925; Southern District of New 

York 1927. Stetson Jennings & Russell 



O.T.C. (Plattsburg 1918). SATC Williams 

College. World War II: New York State 

Guard; enlisted Staff Sergeant 1940, 

discharged Major 1945. Member: New York City Bar Association 

(formerly member of Real Property law Committee); New York County 

lawyers Association; American Bar Association (Real Property law 

Committee); New York State Bar Association (formerly member of 

Real Property law Committee), formerly Vice-President, Board of 

Governors and Executive Committee of Real Estate Board of New 

York, law Committee and Arbitration Committee of Real Estate Board 

of New York. 

62

Andrew Y. Rogers 

Born Madison, NJ 1911. Andover ’29. 

Yale A.B. ’33, Sociology, English. Yale 

ll.B. ’37, law Journal, Coif. Harvard 

Business School (in combination with 

Yale law School), Finance, Business 

Administration. Admitted practice New 

York 1938; U.S. Supreme Court 1948; 

Southern District of New York 1947. Davis 

Polk Wardwell Gardiner & Reed (and 


firm since 1949). World War II: U.S.N.R.: 

commissioned lieutenant (j.g.) 1942; discharged lieutenant 

Commander 1945; air combat intelligence, Aleutians (1942–44); 

Office, Chief of Naval Operations, Washington, D.C. (1944–45); U.S.S. 

Midway Air Group (1945). Executive Committee: International Grenfell 

Association. President: William Matheus Sullivan Musical Foundation. 

Director: American Hospital in Istanbul, Yale law School Fund. 

Grenfell Association of America. Trustee: Dry Dock Savings Bank, 

lincoln Center Fund. Director: Prouts Neck Country Club (Maine). 

Elder, Brick Church (Presbyterian). Executive Committee, Yale law 

School Association. Past Chair: Yale Alumni Fund. Member: American 


lawyers Association (formerly Vice President, Director and Surrogate 

Court Committee), New York City Bar Association Advisory Committee 

to Temporary Commission to Remedy Defects in law of Decedents 

Estates. 

63

Taggart Whipple 

Born Manchester, NH 1912. Noble & 

Greenough ’29; Exeter ’30. Harvard A.B. 

’34, English. New York University J.D. ’38. 




1940; and other Federal courts. lehigh 

Valley R.R., General Counsel’s Office 

1934–38. Davis Polk Wardwell Gardiner & 

Reed (and successor firms) since 1938 

(member of firm since 1950). U.S. State 

Department, Office of Research and Intelligence (Washington, D.C.) 

1946. World War II: U.S. Army, Field Art.; Commissioned 1st 

lieutenant 1942: discharged Captain 1945; Battery Commander, 88th 

Division, Naples-Foggia, Cassino, Rome, North Apennines (1943–44); 

Military Intelligence Service, Washington, D.C. (1944–45); W.D. Staff 

citation. Author: Plaintiff’s Treble Damage Suits: Class Actions, 

“Persons Injured” and Standing to Sue, ABA Antitrust Section, Rep., 

Vol. IX (1956); Problems of Combination, CCH Antitrust Law 

Symposium (1958). Director: The Distillers Company limited (Del.); 

Gordon’s Dry Gin Company limited (Del.); The Community Hospital at 

Glen Cove (Advisory); Wrightsman Art Corporation; Jaynes Art 

Corporation; The long Island Club. Trustee: New York University; New 

York University law Center Foundation; New York University Institute 

of Fine Arts; Vassar College; The Wrightsman Foundation; British- 

American Educational Foundation; The Hall of Fame for Great 

Americans; Village of Muttontown. Member of the Corporation, Woods 

Hole Oceanographic Institution. President: Associated Harvard Alumni 

1968–69. Member: American law Institute, American Bar Association 

(Council, Section on Antitrust law, 1966–70; Specialization 

Committee, 1976– ), New York State Bar Association (Chair: Antitrust 

law Section, 1962–63), New York City Bar Association, Chair: 

Committee on Trade Regulation and Trademarks (1952–55), 

International Bar Association, American Judicature Society, Federal 

Bar Council; Fellow: American College of Trial lawyers. Member: 

Committee on the Revision of Federal Appellate Procedure and 

Preservation of Oral Argument in Appellate Courts, American Bar 

Foundation. 

64

C.H. Willard 

Born Minneapolis, MN 1905. Andover ’22. 

Yale A.B. ’26, English literature, classics, 

Phi Beta Kappa. Harvard ll.B. (cum 

laude) ’29. Admitted practice New York 


1937. National Commission on law 

Observance and Enforcement 

(Wickersham Commission) (Washington, 

D.C.), Assistant to Secretary 1929–30. 



(member of firm since 1950). Consultant, legal Department, Economic 

Cooperation Administration (Washington, D.C.) May–June 1948. 

Author: The Power of Congress to Nullify Gold Clauses (with R. l. 

Post) 46 Harvard law Review 1225 (1933); liability of Banks for 

Misappropriations by Fiduciary Depositors, 20 New York State Bar 

Association. J. No. 5 (1948); The Effect of an Unsuccessful Attempt to 

Amend a Statute (with others), 44 Corn. l. Quart. 336 (1959). World 

War II: War Department, Washington, D.C. Office of the Fiscal Director, 

loan Officer (1942–44); Surplus Property Board, Washington, D.C., 

Assistant General Counsel, Acting General Counsel (1944–45). 

Member: lawyers Club (Governing Committee and Vice President); 

Committee on Investments, Phi Beta Kappa. Member: Bar Association 

City of New York, New York State Bar Association, American Bar 

Association, American law Institute (member: Executive Committee of 

Council). Warden, St. luke's Church, Katonah, New York. 

65

S. Hazard Gillespie 

Born Morristown, NJ 1910. Yale A.B. ’32, 

History, Government, Economics; ll.B. 


Southern District of New York 1941; U.S. 


1947; Eastern District of New York 1949. 



(member of firm since 1948). World War II: 

U.S. Army Air Force, 8th Air Force, 2nd 

Air Division, Chief (civilian) Operational 

Research Section, E.T.O. (1944–45). Director: American Skin 

Association Inc., Piermont Public library, Tappan Zee Preservation 

Coalition Inc. (President). Former Director: Baccarat, Inc., Hospital for 

Special Surgery Inc., Squaw Valley Ski Corporation, Union Settlement 

Association. Member: American Bar Association, New York State Bar 

Association (President: 1958–59), New York County lawyers 

Association, New York City Bar Association (Committee on the 

Judiciary), Federal Bar Association, American Judicature Society. 

Fellow: American College of Trial lawyers, American Bar Foundation. 

U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (1959–61). Chair, 

Moreland Act Commission to Investigate Public Welfare (1961–63). 

Trustee and receiver of 5th Avenue Coach Company (1968–72), 

Century Association (1952– ), New York Yacht Club (1983– ). On 

January 30, 2010, The New York State Bar Association awarded its 

Annual Gold Medal for Distinguished Service in the law to S. Hazard 

Gillespie. 

66

C. Payson Coleman 

Born Englewood, NJ 1925. Williams A.B. 


practice New York 1950. Davis Polk 

Wardwell Sunderland & Kiendl (and 

successor firm) since 1950 (member of 

firm since 1957). World War II: Aviation 

cadet released to inactive duty 1945. 

Member: American Bar Association, New 

York State Bar Association, New York City 

Bar Association. 

67

Wallace S. Jones 

Born New York, NY 1917. Montclair, NJ 

High School ’34. Columbia A.B. ’38, 

Economics, History; J.D. ’41, law 

Review, Kent Scholar. Admitted practice 

New York 1941; U.S. Tax Court 1946; 

U.S. Supreme Court 1948; U.S. Court of 

Claims 1950; C.A. (2nd Cir.) 1963. Davis 

Polk Wardwell Gardiner & Reed 1941–42; 


(and successor firm) since 1946 (member 

of firm since 1957). World War II: 

U.S.N.R., commissioned Ensign (1942), discharged lieutenant (1946), 

retired lieutenant Commander (1954); communications security officer 

(Chief of Naval Operations), Washington, D.C. (1942–44) and 

CINCPAC, Hawaii and Guam (1944–45); letter of commendation (with 

ribbon). Mayor, Essex Fells, NJ. Trustee: Barnard College (Emeritus), 

The International Foundation (Vice President), Scottish Heritage USA, 

Inc. (President), The Seeing Eye, Inc. (President). Member: American 



68

Lawrence E. Walsh 

Born Port Maitland, Nova Scotia 1912. Flushing 

High School ’28. Columbia A.B. ’32; ll.B. ’35. 

Honorary ll.D.: Union ’59, St. John’s ’75, 

Suffolk ’75, Waynesburg ’76, Vermont law 

School ’76. Admitted practice New York 1936; 

Southern District of New York 1941; C.A. (2nd 

Cir.) 1941; (6th Cir.) 1964; Court Customs and 

Patent Appeals 1976; I.C.C., Supreme Court 

1951. Special Assistant Attorney General New 

York (1936–38). Deputy Assistant District 

Attorney New York County (1938–41). Davis 

Polk Wardwell Gardiner & Reed (1941–43). 

Davis Polk Wardwell Sunderland & Kiendl (and successor firm) since 1961 

(member of firm since 1961). Assistant Counsel to the Governor (1943–49). 

Counsel to the Governor (1950–51); Counsel to the Public Service Commission 

(1951–53). Executive Director & General Counsel, Waterfront Commission of 

New York Harbor (1953–54). U.S. Judge, Southern District of New York 

(1954–57). Deputy Attorney General of the U.S. (1957–60). Personal 

representative of the President and deputy head of the U.S. delegation to the 

Paris Meetings on Vietnam (with personal rank of Ambassador) (1969). Director: 

Richardson-Merrell Inc. Trustee: Mutual life Insurance Company of New York, 

Columbia University, William Nelson Cromwell Foundation. Fellow: American 

College of Trial lawyers, American Bar Foundation. Member: New York State 

Committee on legislative and Judicial Salaries; Columbia law School Board of 

Visitors; American law Institute (Executive Committee of Council); American Bar 

Association (President: 1975–76), New York State Bar Association (President: 

1966–67); New York City Bar Association, New York County lawyers 

Association (Vice President: 1965–69); International Bar Association (President: 

1966–67); Bar Association City of New York; New York County lawyers 

Association (Vice President: 1965–69); American Judicature Society’s Institute 

of Judicial Administration. Honorary Member: The law Society of England and 

Wales, The Canadian Bar Association, the Mexican Bar Association. Former 

Member: The President’s Committee on Government Contracts (Equal Job 

Opportunity) (1958–60); U.S. Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Rules of 

Criminal Procedure (1960–66). Chair: Moreland Act Committee on the Alcoholic 

Beverage Control law (1963–64). Chair: lindsay Safety and law Enforcement 

Task Force (1965–66). Chair: American Bar Association Standing Committee on 

Federal Judiciary (1968–72). Counsel to the New York State Court on the 

Judiciary (Matter of Justice Schweitzer) (1971–72). President: Alumni Federation 

of Columbia University (1968–69), Columbia law School Alumni Association 

(1961–63). Columbia University Medal for Excellence (1960); Alumni Medal for 

Conspicuous Service (1967). 

69

John I. Brokaw 

Born New York, NY 1930. St. Paul’s ’48. 

Yale B.A. ’52, Political Science (High 

Honors), High Orations, Phi Beta Kappa. 

Virginia ll.B. ’57, law Review (Decisions 

Editor), Order of the Coif. Admitted 

practice Virginia 1957; New York 1958; 

Southern District of New York, C.A. (2nd 

Cir.) 1960. Davis Polk Wardwell 



Military Service: commissioned 2nd 

lieutenant, U.S.A.R. (1952), discharged 1st lieutenant (1954); 

operations officer, Field Artillery, 1st Cav. Division. Member: Virginia 

Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, New York City Bar 

Association. 

70

William D. Tucker, Jr. 

Born New York, NY 1917. Iona 

Preparatory (New Rochelle) ’35. Holy 

Cross A.B. ’39, Philosophy. Harvard ll.B. 


C.A. (2nd Cir.), Southern District of New 

York 1944. Spence Windels Walser 

Hotchkiss & Angell 1942–45. Davis Polk 



firm since 1957). Member: New York City 

Bar Association, New York State Bar 

Association, American Bar Association. 

71

Peter A. Bator 

Born Budapest, Hungary 1929. Groton 

’47. Harvard A.B. (magna cum laude) ’51, 

History, Phi Beta Kappa; ll.B. (magna 

cum laude) ’54, law Review 

(Developments Editor), Sheldon Fellow. 

Admitted practice New York 1955. Davis 

Polk Wardwell Sunderland & Kiendl (and 


firm since 1961). Director: ICI Americas 

Inc. (Member: Executive Committee); 

Trustee and Vice President: New York 

Infirmary Beekman–Downtown Hospital; President: Incorporated 

Proprietors of Nonquitt. Trustee: Harvard law School Association of 

New York City (1975–77), Alumni Standing Committee, Groton School 

(1976–78). Member: American Bar Association, New York State Bar 

Association, New York City Bar Association, American law Institute 

(Advisor to Representative, Federal Securities Code), American 

Society of International law, International law Association (American 

Branch). 

72

James W.B. Benkard 

Born New York, NY 1937. Harvard B.A. 

’59, History. Columbia ll.B. ’63, 

Triangular Moot Court Team. Admitted 

practice New York 1963; Southern District 

of New York 1970; Eastern District of New 

York 1974; C.A. (2nd Cir.), U.S. Court of 

Claims 1975; U.S. Supreme Court 1976; 

C.A. (8th Cir.) 1977; C.A. (3rd Cir.), D. Vt. 

1978; C.A. (5th Cir.) 1979; C.A. (9th Cir.) 

1980; N.D. Cal. 1990. Davis Polk 


successor firm) since 1963 (member of firm 1973–2005; Senior 

Counsel since 2006). Military Service: U.S. Marine Corps Reserve 

(1959–65) (six months of active duty in 1959). law Secretary to 

Honorable Charles D. Breitel, New York Sup. Court, Appellate Division 

1st Department (1966). law Clerk to Honorable Charles D. Breitel, 

Associate Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals (1967). 

Fellow: American College of Trial lawyers. Member: American Bar 

Association; New York State Bar Association; New York City Bar 

Association (Committee on New York State Courts of Superior 

Jurisdiction 1977–80); American Bar Foundation. Trustee: Teachers 

College of Columbia University (Chair, Development and 

Compensation Committee); Environmental Defense (Chair: litigation 

Review Committee); Vassar College (1985–97) (Chair: Buildings and 

Grounds Committee); Scenic America (1990–97); Columbia law 

School Alumni Association; St. Mark’s School (1981–89), Microsociety. 

Director: Prisoners’ legal Services; Fishers Island Development 

Company 

73

William A. Kaynor 

Born Waterbury, CT 1923. Yale B.A. ’46, 

English. Harvard ll.B. (cum laude) ’52, 

law Review. Admitted practice New York 

1953; C.A. (2nd Cir.), I.C.C. 1959. 

Waterbury Companies, Inc. (1946–49). 



of firm since 1961). World War II: enlisted 

aviation cadet; discharged 1st lieutenant 

U.S. Army Air Force; bomber pilot E.T.O. 

(campaigns: Southern France, Rome, 

Arno, Balkans and Germany); Air Medal, Distinguished Flying Cross. 

Member: American Bar Association, American College of Real Estate 

lawyers, New York State Bar Association, New York City Bar 

Association, Special Committee on Management and Operation of the 

Practice of the Profession (Chair Sub-comm. on the Use of 

Technology). Director: Americana Hotels and Realty Corporation 

(Chair: 1985–86), Segue Software, Inc. Chair: Akin Bay Company, 

investment bankers. 

74

Peter O.A. Solbert 

Born Copenhagen, Denmark 1919. 

Groton ’37. Yale A.B. ’41. Harvard J.D. 

’48. Admitted practice New York, C.A. 

(2nd Cir.) 1949; U.S. Supreme Court 

1952; C.A. (D.C. Cir.) 1981. Registered 

with the Japanese Nichibenren as 

gaikokuho-jimu-bengoshi (1987–89). 



of firm since 1957) (European office, 

1967–70; 1982) (Tokyo office, 1987–89). 

World War II: U.S.N.R., commissioned Ensign (1941), discharged 

lieutenant Commander (1946), gunnery officer, U.S.S. San Diego 

(Third and Fifth Fleets), Pacific, Guadalcanal through Okinawa (1942– 

45). Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, International Security 

Affairs (1963–65). Secretary of Defense Meritorious Civilian Service 

Medal. Chair of the Board of Directors: Seven Springs Farms Center, 

Inc. (Yale University). Director: Center for American Archaeology and 

American Association for the International Commission of Jurists. 

Member: International Bar Association (Committee on Issue and 

Trading of Securities), International law Association (American 

Branch), American Foreign law Association Inc., American Society of 

International law, National Committee on U.S. China Relations, 


City Bar Association (International law Committee), Union 

Internationale des Avocats. 

75

John P. Carroll, Jr. 

Born Brooklyn, NY 1924. Virginia Military 

Institute (1941–43). Cornell A.B. ’44. 

Harvard ll.B. ’49. Admitted practice New 

York 1949. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett 

1949–50. Office of the Chief Counsel, 

Internal Revenue Service (1953–55). Root, 

Barrett, Cohen, Knapp and Smith 1955– 

57. Davis Polk Wardwell Sunderland & 

Kiendl (and successor firm) since 1957 

(member of firm since 1961) (European 

office, 1973–76). Military Service: USMC 

(1943–46, 1951–52). 

76

Bruce W. Nichols 

Born New York, NY 1930. Manhasset, 

New York High School ’47. Princeton A.B. 

(summa cum laude) ’51, Phi Beta Kappa. 

Harvard ll.B. (magna cum laude) ’54, 

law Review (Article Editor). Admitted 




firm since 1961). Member: American Bar 

Association, New York State Bar 

Association, New York City Bar 

Association, International law Association (American Branch), 

American Society of International law, International Bar Association. 

77

Richard E. Nolan 

Born New York, NY 1928. Brooklyn 

Preparatory School ’46. Holy Cross A.B. 

(cum laude) ’50, Philosophy and 

Economics. Columbia ll.B. ’57, law 

Review (Notes Editor). Admitted practice 

New York 1958; C.A. (2nd Cir.), Southern 

District of New York, Eastern District of 

New York 1959; D. Md. 1960; U.S. 

Supreme Court 1962. Davis Polk 



firm since 1966). Military Service: U.S. Army, 1st lieutenant, Signal 

Corps. Fellow: American College of Trial lawyers. Member: American 

Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, New York City Bar 

Association, Federal Bar Council, American law Institute Special 

Master, Appellate Division, First Department. Director: The North 

Atlantic life Insurance Company of America; United Neighborhood 

Houses. Knight of Malta. Member: Cardinal’s Committee of the laity. 

78

Richard B. Smith 

Born lancaster, PA 1928. lancaster High 

School ’45. Yale B.A. ’49, History. 

University of Pennsylvania law School 

ll.B. ’53, law Review. Admitted practice 


1972; District of Columbia 1982. Reavis & 

McGrath (1953–55, 1957–67) (member of 

firm 1963–67). W.R. Grace & Company 

1955–57. Commissioner, U.S. Securities 

and Exchange Commission 1967–71. 

Davis Polk & Wardwell since 1971 

(member of firm 1971–90, Senior Counsel 1990– ). Administrative 

Conference of the United States (Council 1971–74, liaison Member 

1981–85). Member: American Bar Association, Section of Business 

law Council (1979–84), Committee on Federal Regulation of 

Securities (Chair: Executive Committee 1984–91), Committee on 

Professional Responsibility (Chair: 1984–88), Commission on law and 

the Economy (Vice Chair: 1975–80), Coordinating Group on 

Regulatory Reform (Chair: 1980–85), National Conference of lawyers 

and Certified Public Accountants (1981–88), New York State Bar 

Association, New York City Bar Association (Chair: Committee on 

Aeronautics 1963–66), American Judicature Society, American law 

Institute (Advisor: Federal Securities Code 1970–78, Corporate 

Governance 1980–93) (Consultant: law Governing lawyers 1993– , 

Board of Trustees of Citizens Budget Commission 1976–88 (Vice 

Chair: Executive Committee 1978–85), Mayor’s Committee on Taxi 

Regulatory Issues (Chair: 1981–82). legal Advisory Board of National 

Association of Securities Dealers (1989–93), Group of Thirty U.S. 

Working Committee for Clearance and Settlement (Co-chair: legal 

and Regulatory Sub-group). Dean’s Advisory Council, George Mason 

University School of law. 

79

Allan A.A. Flynn 

Born Port Washington, NY 1931. Yale 

A.B. ’53, American Studies. Columbia 


1959; Southern District of New York, C.A. 

(2nd Cir.) 1975. Davis Polk Wardwell 



Military Service: commissioned Ensign, 

USN (1953), released lieutenant (jg) 

(1956); gunnery officer, destroyers. 


York State Bar Association. 

80

Charles M. Spofford 

Born St. louis, MO 1902. Evanston, Il 

Township High School ’19. University of 

Grenoble (France) ’20, cert. d’etudes 

Francais. Yale A.B. ’24, Phi Beta Kappa. 

Harvard ll.B. ’28. Yale M.A. (Honorary) 

’56. Northwestern ll.D. (Honorary) ’59. 

Instructor in History at Yale (1924–25). 

Admitted practice Illinois 1929; New York 


1933; U.S. Supreme Court 1946. Isham, 

lincoln & Beale (Chicago) 1928–30. Davis 

Polk Wardwell Gardiner & Reed (and successor firms) since 1930 

(member of firm since 1940). World War II: U.S. Army, commissioned 

lieutenant Colonel (1942), discharged Brigadier General (1945); North 

Africa, Sicily and Italy (1942–43); Mediterranean Theater, Assistant 

Chief of Staff, G-5 (1944–45); U.S. Permanent Representative, North 

Atlantic Council, with rank of Ambassador (1950–52); Chair, North 

Atlantic Council Deputies; Distinguished Service Medal; Purple Heart 

(U.S); and decorations by British, Belgian, French, Icelandic, Italian 

and Tunisian governments. Trustee: The Mutual life Insurance 

Company of New York (Executive Committee) (1955–76), Carnegie 

Corporation of New York (Director Emeritus), Juilliard Musical 

Foundation. Director: Uniroyal, Inc. (1962–75), The Distillers Company, 

limited (Delaware) and subsidiary companies (1952–76), M.W. 

Marshall & Company, Inc. (1964–74), Council on Foreign Relations 

(Director Emeritus), Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc. (Director 

Emeritus), lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., Director 

Emeritus (Chair: Executive Committee), A.P.P.I. (Association 

Internationale pour Ia Promotion et Ia Protection des Investissements 

Prives en Territoires Etrangers) (Zurich) (Member: Directing 

Committee), Ditchley Foundation (Member: Adv. Council). Alumni 

Fellow of the Corporation of Yale University (1956–63). Member: 

American law Institute, American Bar Association, New York State 

Bar Association, New York County lawyers Association, New York 

City Bar Association, International law Association. Fellow: American 

Bar Foundation. Carnegie lecturer, Hague Academy of International 

law (1964). 

81

Joseph Alsop Chubb 

Born New York, NY 1940. Yale B.A. ’62; 


1966; C.A. (2nd Cir.) 1974; Southern 

District of New York 1976. Associate 

Professor, University of Mississippi 

School of law (1966–67). Minority 

Counsel to Sub-comm. on the Standing 

Rules of the United States Senate (1967). 

Davis Polk & Wardwell since 1968 

(member of firm since 1974) (london 

office, 1978–79; Paris office, 1979–81; 

london office, 1984–90, 1993– ). Member: American Bar Association, 


Association, New York City Bar Association (Member: Committee on 

Banking, 1976–78), Federal Bar Council, International Bar Association 

(Vice Chair of Committee on Banking law; Chair of Sub-comm. on 

Bank Regulation). 

82

Donaldson C. Pillsbury 

Born Minneapolis, MN 1940. Yale B.A. 

’62, History. University College, Oxford 

B.A. ’64, Philosophy, Politics and 

Economics. Yale ll.B. ’67, law Journal, 

Order of the Coif, Phi Delta Phi. Admitted 




firm since 1973) (European office, 

September 1975–August 1978). Trustee: 

The Nightingale-Bamford School and The 

Provident loan Society of New York. Chair of the Board and Director: 

The Chamber Music Society of lincoln Center. Member: American Bar 

Association, New York State Bar Association. 

83

Richard Spizzirri 

Born Oak Park, Il 1933. Brown A.B. 

(magna cum laude) ’55, Government, 

History of Art, Phi Beta Kappa (Junior 

Year). Harvard ll.B. (cum laude) ’58. 

Admitted practice New York 1959; 

Southern District of New York, C.A. (2nd 

Cir.) 1960. Davis Polk Wardwell 




York City Bar Association. Securities 

Regulation Commission 1968–71. Trustee: The Juilliard School, 

Institute of Musical Art, The Juilliard Foundation, Solisti New York; 

Secretary, Morgan Stanley Research Ventures, Inc.; Corporate 

Committee, Whitney Museum of Art. 

84

James F. Dolan 

Born Orange, NJ 1930. Seton Hall 

University B.S. ’50. Columbia ll.B. ’53. 

Admitted practice District of Columbia 

1953; New York 1957; U.S. Tax Court 



(member of firm since 1966). Military 

Service: lieutenant, USNR (1953–57). 


York State Bar Association, New York City 

Bar Association, American College of 

Probate Counsel. 

85

Samuel F. Pryor III 

Born New York, NY 1928. Yale B.A. ’50, 

Economics. Pennsylvania ll.B. ’53. 

Admitted practice District of Columbia, 

Court of Military Appeals 1954; New York 



(member of firm 1961–98 (Paris office 

1964–67); Senior Counsel since 1998). 

Military Service: USMCR, enlisted pfc 

(1953), released 1st lieutenant (1955); 

Office of the Judge Advocate General of 

the Navy, Washington, D.C. (1954–55). Trustee: The Taft School (1962– 

66); The Rippowam-Cisqua School (1967–78); The Harvey School 

(1980–85); Northern Westchester Hospital (1976–85); The Trinity 

Pawling School (1985–88). Overseer, University of Pennsylvania law 

School (1984–94). President of The Appalachian Mountain Club 

(1994–97), Chair of its Board of Advisors (1998– ). Vice Chair: The 

Church Pension Fund (Chair of the Investment Committee) (1982–97). 

Director and Members Executive Committee of Scenic Hudson 

(1994–2000). Audubon New York (1995–2002), New York league of 

Conservation Voters (1995–2002). Director: National Forest 

Foundation (1998–2005), leadership Council (2010– ). Chair of The 

World Rehabilitation Fund. Director and Member of the Executive 

Committee: The Provident loan Society. President and Commissioner: 

Palisades Interstate Park Commission. Chair Emeritus: Republican 

Pro-Choice Coalition and Westchester land Trust. Chair: Bedford 

Open Space Committee. Director: land Trust Alliance (2004–09). 


New York City Bar Association. 

86

James P. Lawton 

Born Yuma, AZ 1948. U.S. Naval 

Academy B.S. ’70, Engineering. William 

and Mary, Graduate Business School 

1973–75. Virginia J.D. ’78. Admitted 

practice New York 1980. Davis Polk & 

Wardwell since 1978 (member of firm 

since 1985). Military Service: U.S. Navy, 

government contracting officer for 

nuclear ship construction. Board of 

Editors: ERISA and Benefits law Journal. 

Member: American Bar Association, 

Committee on Employee Benefits (Sub-committee on Fiduciary 

Responsibility); New York State Bar Association (Committee on 

Employee Benefits). 

87

James Woodman Lloyd 

Born Syracuse, NY 1940. Massachusetts 

Institute of Technology S.B. ’61, 

Aeronautics and Astronautics. Columbia 

ll.B. (cum laude) ’64, law Review (Board 

of Editors), Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, 

Kent Moot Court, Phi Delta Phi. Admitted 

practice New York 1965; C.A. (2nd Cir.) 


1976; U.S. Tax Court 1980. Davis Polk 


successor firm) 1964; since 1968 

(member of firm since 1974). Military Service: U.S. Navy (1964–67), 

released lieutenant (1967); legal Officer and Senior, Watch Officer, 

U.S.S. Ranger (CVA-61). Fellow: American College of Trust and Estate 

Counsel. Director and Secretary: The Charles A. and Anne Morrow 

lindbergh Foundation. Member: American Bar Association, New York 

State Bar Association, New York County lawyers Association, New 

York City Bar Association (Committee on Professional and Judicial 

Ethics 1988–91; Special Committee on Estate and Gift Taxation 

1989–92; Committee on Trusts, Estates and Surrogate’s Courts 

1984–87). 

88

John P. Cooney, Jr. 

Born Chicago, Il 1944. Indiana B.S. ’66, 

Economics. Duke J.D. ’69, law Journal 

(Note Editor). Admitted practice New York 

1970; C.A. (2d Cir., 5th Cir.), S.D.N.Y. 

1972, E.D.N.Y. 1977. Davis Polk 1969–72; 


Assistant U.S. Attorney, S.D.N.Y. 

(1972–77) (Chief, Narcotics Unit 

1976–77). Fellow, American College of 

Trial lawyers. (Chairman, Federal 

Criminal Procedure Committee, 

1999–2001; Chairman, Subcommittee on Revision of Sentencing 

Guidelines 5.K.I; Member: New York Downstate Committee 

1996–2001; 2003– ; Member: Federal Rules of Evidence Committee, 

2003– ). Chairman, Downstate New York Supreme Court Historical 

Society, 2000. Member: Wong Sung Society of San Francisco (from 

1996); Federal Bar Council (Chairman, Bar & Bench liaison 

Committee 1996–97), Committee for Modern Courts; Criminal Justice 

Act Panel, S.D.N.Y. (1977–2004); Association Bar City of New York; 

New York Council of Defense lawyers. Member: Board of Directors, 

The Yellowstone Park Foundation. 

89

Francis J. Morison 

Born Forest Hills, NY 1941. Fordham A.B. 

’62, English, Phi Beta Kappa. Columbia 

Graduate Faculties M.A. ’65, English and 

Comparative literature (thesis honors). 

New York University ll.B. ’67, law 

Review. Admitted practice New York 

1968; U.S. Supreme Court 1991. Davis 

Polk Wardwell Sunderland & Kiendl (and 


firm since 1975) (london office, 1979–84). 

Member: New York City Bar Association 

(Committee on Securities Regulation 1987–90). Chair of the Board of 

Trustees: Xavier High School. Director and Chair of the Executive 

Committee: Manhattan Theatre Club. Trustee: New York University 

School of law Foundation. 

90

David W. Ferguson 

Born lake Bluff, Il 1953. Amherst College 

B.A. (summa cum laude) ’75, Economics. 

Thomas J. Watson Fellowship (1975–76). 

Yale J.D. ’79, law Journal (Editor), 

Director of Moot Court Board. law Clerk 

to Honorable Robert W. Sweet, U.S. 

District Court, Southern District of New 

York (1979–80). Admitted practice New 

York 1980. Davis Polk & Wardwell since 

1980 (member of firm since 1987). 

91

Index

Index 

Adams, D. Nelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59 

Alexander, Henry Clay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 

Angell, Montgomery B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40 

Auchincloss, J. Howland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46 

Bangs, Charles W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 

Bangs, Francis Nehemiah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 

Bangs, Francis Sedgwick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 

Bator, Peter A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72 

Benkard, James W.B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73 

Bradley, Otis T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 

Brewster, Carroll H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 

Brokaw, John I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70 

Brownell, George A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47 

Cannon, William C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49 

Carroll, John P. Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76 

Carson, Ralph M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60 

Chubb, Joseph Alsop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82 

Cleveland, Grover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 

Coleman, C. Payson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67 

Coleman, leighton H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48 

Cooney, John P., Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89 

Crossman, Edgar G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45 

Davis, John W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 

Denison, Winfred T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24 

Dolan, James F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85 

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Fearey, Morton l., II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57 

Ferguson, David W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91 

Fisher, Marion N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 

FitzGibbon, Thomas O’Gorman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41 

Fletcher, Walter D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52 

Flynn, Allan A.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80 

Gardiner, George H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 

Gillespie, S. Hazard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66 

Greene, Edward R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 

Hover, John C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50 

Jennings, Frederick B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 

Jones, Wallace S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68 

Kaynor, William A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74 

Kiendl, Theodore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58 

lawton, James P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87 

leisure, Michael W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55 

lindsay, David A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61 

lloyd, James Woodman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88 

MacVeagh, Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 

MacVeagh, Ewen Cameron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51 

MacVeagh, Wayne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 

McBean, Peter C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56 

McCullough, Hall Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44 

Mills, Ogden l. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27 

Morison, Francis J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90 

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Nichols, Bruce W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77 

Nolan, Richard E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78 

Palmer, George W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62 

Pillsbury, Donaldson C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83 

Polk, Frank l. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 

Pryor, Samuel F., III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86 

Reed, lansing P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32 

Rogers, Andrew Y. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63 

Russell, Charles Howland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 

Schwarz, Frederick A.O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54 

Smith, Richard B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79 

Solbert, Peter O.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75 

Spizzirri, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84 

Spofford, Charles M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81 

Sprague, Henry lynde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 

Stetson, Francis lynde . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26 

Sunderland, Edwin S.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42 

Tracy, Charles Edward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 

Tucker, William D. Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71 

Walsh, lawrence E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69 

Wardwell, Allen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 

Wardwell, Edward R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53 

Whipple, Taggart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64 

Willard, C.H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65 

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