Union Law School
Union Law School was a law school located in Easton, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania.
History
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ "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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