William Marshall Bullitt (March 4, 1873 - October 3, 1957) was an influential lawyer and author who served as United States General Attorney (1912-1913).
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Biography
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Bullitt was born to Thomas Walker Bullitt and Annie P. Logan in Louisville, Kentucky on March 4, 1873. His ancestors arrived in Kentucky in the 1700s: Bullitt, Walkers, Christians (relatives of Patrick Henry) and Logans (descended from US Supreme Court Justice , John Marshall). Her father studied law in Philadelphia.
He began his college career at Princeton University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1894. He received a law degree from the University of Louisville in 1895.
Initial career
In the same year (1895), Bullitt entered into legal practice in his hometown of Louisville, where he established himself as a senior member of his company, Bullitt, Dawson & Tarrant. He practiced law there until his death in 1957.
Politics
Bullitt served as a delegate-at-large at the 1908 Republican National Convention in Chicago. He made a speech on behalf of all members of the Louisville Republican Party during the election time. If he did not think the election officials showed his standards, he proceeded to arrest them.
Bulliit proved his dedication to President William Howard Taft and the Republican Party by leading the Taft election force in Kentucky during his tenure as president in 1909.
Attorney General (1912-1913)
Taft appointed the Bullitt Solicitor General on June 28, 1912.
During his ministry (1912-1913), Bullitt presented cases involving the enforcement of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law in the corners of cotton, and the publicity and tariff legislation on newspapers and their circulation.
Other cases he filed before the US Supreme Court involve the imposition of income tax from federal court salaries, taxation of state bonds and city securities, the Federal Agricultural Act, and the California Rehabilitation Act.
After government
Bullitt was a Kentucky Republican nomination for the Senate in 1914, but was defeated.
For the rest of his life, he was active not only as a lawyer but also as a banker, academician, and writer.
He taught at Harvard University and served as a member of the mathematics committee there. He became a Library Fellow of Pierpont Morgan and is a member of the Louisville Bar Association, the American Math Association, the Amateur Astronomy Association, and the American Law Institute.
Carnegie Endowment and Alger Hiss
In 1933, Bullitt joined the guardian of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace after being nominated by his successor as attorney general John W. Davis. Often critical of Carnegie, he was one of the most vociferous about Alger Hiss, first because of the irregular procedures in accepting Hiss and the president and then after following the HUAC hearings in August 1948. During late November and early December 1948, he wrote a " Facts about the Controversy Whittaker Chambers-Alger Hiss, "which he published soon. With this review, he voted on 13 December 1948, that the guardians accepted Hiss's resignation as president but received a majority vote of the council for unpaid leave. Bullitt then attended both Hiss trials during 1949 and fed Federal Attorney Thomas Murphy with his review as legal aid.
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Personal life
Bullitt is known as a very weak man who according to a Kentuckian can "speak faster than anyone in Kentucky."
He is a well-known collector of rare mathematical manuscripts. After discussing with his friend G. H. Hardy, Bullitt set out to get his first edition by what he regarded as the twenty-five greatest mathematicians of all time. After his death, this collection, which evolved to include at least 300 volumes by at least sixty different mathematicians, was donated to the University of Louisville. Among the texts in the collection are Albert Einstein's works, Isaac Newton, Renà © Descartes, Galileo, Copernicus, Euclid, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Leonhard Euler, and Gottfried Leibniz.
In November 1956, the thief broke the safe wall at his home in Oxmoor. Police estimate the amount of valuables taken as high as $ 250,000, of which $ 77,000 was discovered at the time Bullitt died a year later.
Death
Bullitt died on October 3, 1957, due to a heart attack at the age of 84. He survived by his 44-year-old wife Nora Iasigi, and three children: Thomas Walker Bullitt, Nora Iasigi Bullitt (Mrs. Eugene W. Leake, Jr.) and Barbara Bullitt (Ny Lowry Watkins). He also survived by his nephew Dorothy Priscilla "Patsy" Bullitt Collins of Seattle. Bullitt is buried at Oxmoor Cemetery in Kentucky.
Impact
Bullitt argued more than fifty cases before the US Supreme Court, some of which were debated when serving as United States Public Defenders.
Publications
The following publications appear in two lists in the Library of Congress online catalog:
- The Kentucky Civil and Civil Code of Practice and Amendment Promulgated Before 1899 (1899)
- Civil and Criminal Codes of Practice of Kentucky (1902)
- Louisville Pilot Case (1907)
- Individual Policyholder Relationship with Resource of Mutual Insurance Company (1914)
- United States Supreme Court and Unconstitutional Legislation (1924)
- Opinions from Wm. Marshall Bullitt on Disputed Claims between Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Ltd., and United States Emergency Fleet (1923)
- Accidental Means (1927)
- Some Unresolved Issues: Address Before Bar Association Cincinnati, April 26, 1945 (1946)
- Factual Review from Whittaker Chambers-Alger Hiss Controversy (New York: Lawyers Press, 1949)
Other publications are:
- Surplus Distribution Divided into the Light of Current Economic Condition
Bullitt also edited his own code of law book in 1889 and 1902, called the Bullitt Codes of Ethics and Criminal of Kentucky.
References
External links
- Historical links: Dorothry Priscilla "Patsy" Bullitt Collins (1920-2003)
- Davis, Mark B. (August 1, 2011). Bullitt Lawyer . Sabit Hill Books
- William Marshall Bullitt in the Search of the Mausoleum
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents from the Public Defenders Office.
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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