Harry Bigelow
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Harry Augustus Bigelow (September 22, 1874 – January 8, 1950) was an American lawyer. As a Harvard graduate, he worked in private practice in Hawaii before being chosen as one of the first faculty members of the University of Chicago Law School in 1904. Bigelow remained at Chicago for forty years and rose to become dean of the law school. He wrote a number of textbooks and advised the American Law Institute. After retirement, he became a member of the National Loyalty Review Board, established by Harry S. Truman to vet federal employees. In his private life, Bigelow had collections of African and Japanese art and was an avid big game hunter, in the course of which he became one of the first white men to cross the Belgian Congo west of Lake Edward.
Harry Bigelow | |
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Born | (1874-09-22)September 22, 1874 |
Died | January 8, 1950(1950-01-08) (aged 75) Chicago, Illinois |
Occupation | Law professor |
Spouse | Mary Parker (died 1920) |