Charles Warren (U.S. author)
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Pulitzer Prize for History
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in 1923.
He was also a lawyer. During the presidency of Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
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, Warren served as Assistant Attorney General
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from June 1914 to April 1918, and drafted the Espionage Act of 1917
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.
Warren was graduated from Harvard University
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in 1889, and also was a graduate of Harvard Law School
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. He received his doctor of laws degree from Columbia Law School
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in 1933. He lectured at the University of Rochester
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, Boston University School of Law
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, Northwestern University School of Law
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, Johns Hopkins University
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, the University of Virginia
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, the University of Chicago
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, and several others.
In 1894, he founded the Immigration Restriction League
Immigration Restriction League
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with his fellow Harvard graduates, Prescott F. Hall and Robert DeCourcy Ward. The organization promoted the exclusion of the so-called new immigrants because of their allegedly inferior "racial qualities".
He married Annie Louise Bliss in 1904, and they celebrated their fiftieth anniversary before his death.
Selective bibliography
- History of the Harvard Law School and of Early Legal Conditions in America (1908)
- A History of the American Bar (1911)
- The Supreme Court in United States History (1922; revised edition 1928)
- The Making of the Constitution (1928)
- Congress, the Constitution and the Supreme Court (1930; rev. ed. 1935)
- Congress as Santa Claus (1932)
- Troubles of a Neutral (1934)
- Bankruptcy in United States History (1935)
- Odd Byways in American History (1942)
Further reading
- "Charles Warren" (editorial), The Washington Post, August 18, 1954, p. 10.
- Twentieth Century Authors. First Supplement. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1955.
- Who Was Who in America. Volume 3, 1951-1960. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1966.
- A history of the American bar (1911) by Charles Warren