Union Law School
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Union Law School was a law school located in Easton, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania.
History
Union Law School was founded in 1846 by Washington McCartney, and incorporated by the Pennsylvania legislature eight years later, in 1854.[1]
Two of its most notable alumni were U.S. Representative Philip Johnson and Wisconsin state senator Robert L. D. Potter. Potter graduated in the spring of 1857.
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
- ^ "McCartney, Hon. Washington, LL.D." in The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Pennsylvania of the Nineteenth Century Philadelphia: Galaxy Publishing Company, 1874; p. 459
- ^ 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
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