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13 FAMOUS AMERICAN LAWYERS
ALL BUT ONE NEVER WENT TO LAW SCHOOL
1. Patrick Henry (1736-1799), member of the Continental
Congress, governor of Virginia

2. John Jay (1745-1829), first chief justice of the Supreme
Court

3. John Marshall (1755-1835), chief justice of the Supreme
Court

4. William Wirt (1772-1834), attorney general

5. Roger B. Taney (1777-1864), secretary of the treasury,
chief justice of the Supreme Court

6. Daniel Webster (1782-1852), secretary of state

7. Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873), senator, chief justice of the
Supreme Court

8. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), president

9. Stephen Douglas (1813-1861), representative, senator from
Illinois

10. Clarence Darrow (1857-1938), defense attorney in Scopes
trial of 1925. [While Clarence Darrow attended a law school
for one year, he did not distinguish himself and preferred to
study law on his own. He received the greater part of his
education in a law office in Youngstown, Ohio.]

11. Robert Storey (b. 1893), president of the American Bar
Association (1952-1953)

12. J. Strom Thurmond (b. 1902), senator, governor of South
Carolina

13. James O. Eastland (b. 1904), senator from Mississippi