Simon Greenleaf,was an American lawyer and jurist. He was born at Newburyport,Massachusetts before moving to New Gloucester where he was admitted to the Cumberland County bar.
Elizabeth Ann Warren is an American politician and former law professor who is the senior United States senator from Massachusetts,serving since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party and regarded as a progressive,Warren has focused on consumer protection,equitable economic opportunity,and the social safety net while in the Senate. Warren was a candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries,ultimately finishing third.
Ronald Myles Dworkin was an American philosopher,jurist,and scholar of United States constitutional law. At the time of his death,he was Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University and Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London. Dworkin had taught previously at Yale Law School and the University of Oxford,where he was the Professor of Jurisprudence,successor to philosopher H.L.A. Hart. An influential contributor to both philosophy of law and political philosophy,Dworkin received the 2007 Holberg International Memorial Prize in the Humanities for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact." According to a survey in The Journal of Legal Studies,Dworkin was the second most-cited American legal scholar of the twentieth century. After his death,the Harvard legal scholar Cass Sunstein said Dworkin was "one of the most important legal philosophers of the last 100 years. He may well head the list."
Hingham is a town in metropolitan Greater Boston on the South Shore of the U.S. state of Massachusetts in northern Plymouth County. At the 2020 census,the population was 24,284. Hingham is known for its colonial history and location on Boston Harbor. The town was named after Hingham,Norfolk,England,and was first settled by English colonists in 1633.
The Boston Brahmins or Boston elite are members of Boston's traditional upper class. They are often associated with Harvard University,Anglicanism,and traditional Anglo-American customs and clothing. Descendants of the earliest English colonists are typically considered to be the most representative of the Boston Brahmins. They are considered White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs).
John Collins Warren was an American surgeon. In 1846 he gave permission to William T.G. Morton to provide ether anesthesia while Warren performed a minor surgical procedure. News of this first public demonstration of surgical anesthesia quickly circulated around the world. He was a founder of the New England Journal of Medicine and was the third president of the American Medical Association. He was the first Dean of Harvard Medical School and a founding member of the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Zephaniah Swift was an eighteenth-century American author,judge,lawyer,law professor,diplomat and politician from Windham,Connecticut. He served as a U.S. Representative from Connecticut and State Supreme Court Judge. He wrote the first legal treatise published in America.
Benjamin Woods Labaree was a leading historian of American colonial history and American maritime history. He was born in New Haven,Connecticut.
Samuel Lincoln was an Englishman and progenitor of many notable United States political figures,including his 4th-great-grandson,President Abraham Lincoln,Maine governor Enoch Lincoln,and Levi Lincoln Sr. and Levi Lincoln Jr.,both of whom served as Massachusetts Representatives,Governor and Lieutenant Governor. Because of Samuel Lincoln's descendants,his fortuitous arrival in the Massachusetts Bay Colony,and the fact that his ancestry is known for several generations,he is considered the father of the most prominent branch of Lincolns in the United States.
Charles Warren was an American lawyer and legal scholar who won a Pulitzer Prize for his book The Supreme Court in United States History (1922).
John Deming was an early Puritan settler and original patentee of the Connecticut Colony
The Quincy family was a prominent political family in Massachusetts from the mid-17th century through to the early 20th century. It is connected to the Adams political family through Abigail Adams.
Waitstill Winthrop was a colonial magistrate,military officer,and politician of New England.
John Anthony Edwards Pottow is the John Philip Dawson Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School,specializing in international commercial law,bankruptcy and consumer finance. In addition to scholarship,Pottow is known for pro bono work and has argued pro bono cases before the United States Supreme Court and several United States Courts of Appeals,winning an award for pro bono service. His public service in international trade law includes service on the United States Delegation to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and the State Department's Advisory Committee on Private International Law.
Lynne Elizabeth Maquat is an American biochemist and molecular biologist whose research focuses on the cellular mechanisms of human disease. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine. She currently holds the J. Lowell Orbison Endowed Chair and is a professor of biochemistry and biophysics,pediatrics and of oncology at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Professor Maquat is also Founding Director of the Center for RNA Biology and Founding Chair of Graduate Women in Science at the University of Rochester.
Arthur Easterbrook Whittemore was a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1955 to 1969. He was appointed by Governor Christian Herter.
Richard David Brown is an American historian specializing in colonial,revolutionary,and early American society and culture. He is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Connecticut,where he has taught since 1971.
Daniel L. Hartl is the Higgins Professor of Biology in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He is also a principal investigator at the Hartl Laboratory at Harvard University. His research interests are focused on evolutionary genomics,molecular evolution,and population genetics.
Alona E. Evans was an American scholar who specialized in international law and was one of the first American academics to write extensively on legal issues related to international terrorists,fugitives and refugees. Evans was a professor in and the chair of the Department of Political Science at Wellesley College,Wellesley,Massachusetts,and was the first woman to be president of the American Society of International Law.
Amelia Louise Warren Tyagi is an American businesswoman,management consultant,and author. She co-founded and is president of the placement firm Business Talent Group,is a trustee emeritus of progressive think tank Demos,and co-founded HealthAllies. She co-authored two books,The Two-Income Trap and All Your Worth,with her mother Elizabeth Warren. She is a board member for the non-profit organization Fuse Corps and a former commentator for the radio show Marketplace.
