Charles Cotesworth Beaman Sr. (May 7, 1840 – December 15, 1900) was an American lawyer who wrote The National and Private Alabama Claims and their Final and Amicable Settlement (1871).[1] In December 1870 he served as the first-ever Solicitor General of the United States, a position created to compile the individual claims of losses caused by Confederate raider ships during the United States Civil War.[2]
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| Born | May 7, 1840 Houlton, Maine |
| Died | December 15, 1900 (aged 60) New York, New York |
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| Occupation | Lawyer |
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Biography edit
Charles Cotesworth Beaman was born in Houlton, Maine on May 7, 1840.[3]
He graduated from Harvard University and Harvard Law School.[4] He began practicing law in New York City in 1867.[3]
Beaman was also a vice president of the University Club of New York from 1890 to 1899 and a president from 1899 to 1900.[5]
He died at his home in New York on December 15, 1900.[6]
References edit
- ^ "Charles Cotesworth Beaman". Dictionary of American Biography Base Set. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928–1936. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2005.
- ^ Hackett, Frank Warren. Reminiscences of the Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration 1872, The Alabama Claims. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911. 84–85.
- ^ a b The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. XV. James T. White & Company. 1916. pp. 167–168. Retrieved December 22, 2020 – via Google Books.
- ^ "BeamanC". www.sgnhs.org. Archived from the original on March 12, 2005. Retrieved January 13, 2022.
- ^ University Club of New York (1921). Annual of the University Club. p. 49.
- ^ "Charles C. Beaman Dead". The New York Times. December 16, 1900. p. 2. Retrieved December 22, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
External links edit
- Saint-Gaudens National Historical Site
- Charles C. Beaman
- William Evarts & Hettie Evarts Beaman
- William Maxwell Evarts Bust
- Saint-Gaudens' General William T. Sherman
- Works by or about Charles Cotesworth Beaman at Internet Archive
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