Union Law School

Not to be confused with the Union College of Law, the original name of the Northwestern University School of Law.

Union Law School was a private school of law located in Easton, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania.

History

Union Law School was founded in 1846 by Washington McCartney, and was incorporated by the Pennsylvania legislature eight years later, in 1854. ^[1]

Two of its most notable alumni were United States Representative Philip Johnson and Wisconsin state senator Robert L. D. Potter. Potter graduated in the spring of 1857.^{[ citation needed ]}

In 2000, a historian wrote that the school proved incapable of sustaining itself after McCartney's death, writing that it was "a one-man operation that died with him." ^[2]

References

1. "McCartney, Hon. Washington, LL.D." in The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Pennsylvania of the Nineteenth Century Philadelphia: Galaxy Publishing Company, 1874; p. 459
2. Knupfer, Peter B. Union As It Is: Constitutional Unionism and Sectional Compromise, 1787-1861 Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000; chapter 2, endnote 54