• Roswell Martin Field

    1807 - 1869

    Roswell Martin Field (1807 - 1869)

    Dred Scott’s lawyer, father of famous author and poet Eugene Field. Field was admitted to the bar by the time he was 18. He served at state’s attorney for his country from 1832 to 1835. Fields came to St. Louis in 1839 & after several difficult years, his fortune changed in 1853 when he became […]

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  • William Mark Felt, Sr

    1913 - 2008

    William Mark Felt, Sr (1913 - 2008)

    FBI Agent, Watergate Figure. He was better known as “Deep Throat,” the name given him by the press to hide his identity as the secret government official who leaked details of the illegal activity relating to the Watergate Scandal.  His information led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon, who resigned rather than face […]

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  • Joseph A. Faurot

    1872 - 1942

    Joseph A. Faurot (1872 - 1942)

    New York City Police detective who introduced the use of finger-printing in the United States. He was the first to use fingerprints to identify a criminal, and the first to obtain a conviction with fingerprint evidence. Faurot rose to become a deputy police commissioner before his retirement in 1926.  (bio by: Anonymous)

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  • Timothy Farrell

    1922 - 1989

    Timothy Farrell (1922 - 1989)

    Los Angeles County Marshall, Police Chief from January 1971 to January 1974. He was also an actor and writer, playing in many films by director Ed Wood. He wrote and played the baliff in the ABC television series “Day in Court” and Traffic Court. He also played the bailiff in the courtroom scene in the […]

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  • Anthony Ettricke

    1970 - 1970

    Anthony Ettricke (1970 - 1970)

    Ettricke was a lawyer and antiquary. He commited the Duke of Monmouth for trial after his rebellion – Monmouth was executed a week later. An argumentative man, in a fit of rage he swore he would ‘never be buried within the church or without it – neither above the ground or below it’. He therefore […]

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  • James Edgar Engle

    1970 - 1897

    James Edgar Engle (1970 - 1897)

    Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. Served in the Civil War as a Sergeant in Company I, 97th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. He was awarded the CMOH for his bravery at Bermuda Hundred, Virginia on May 18, 1864. His citation reads “Responded to a call for volunteers to carry ammunition to the regiment on the […]

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  • Overton Gentry Ellis

    1970 - 1970

    Overton Gentry Ellis (1970 - 1970)

    Judge. He was chief justice of Washington supreme court and an associate justice for eight years. Judge Ellis left Kansas City in 1892, two years later he married Jennie Wilhite, a member of a pioneer Kansas City family. In 1910 Judge Ellis was appointed associate judge of Washington high court and in 1917 he assumed […]

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  • Jake Ehrlich

    1900 - 1971

    Jake Ehrlich (1900 - 1971)

    Trial lawyer. His slogan, “Never plead guilty”, was known throughout the legal profession and his courtroom skills, strategies and successes gave him national acclaim. His first major case was defending Alexander Pantages in 1931, and following his successful defense, Hollywood celebrities entrusted him with their legal problems. Actors, writers, directors, musicians, sports figures, and assorted […]

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  • Francis Boardman “Pistol Pete” Eaton

    1860 - 1958

    Francis Boardman “Pistol Pete” Eaton (1860 - 1958)

    Folk Figure. A former deputy U.S. Marshall who claimed to have killed 11 men with the Colt .45 he wore strapped to his side. He served as deputy U.S. Marshall under Judge Isaac C. Paker “hanging judge” in the Indian Territory. Frank Eaton was known as “Pistol Pete,” a nickname he acquired at the age […]

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  • Wyatt Earp

    1848 - 1929

    Wyatt Earp (1848 - 1929)

    American Frontier Law Officer. Born in Monmouth, Illinois, he grew up on a farm in Iowa.  He moved with his parents in 1864 to California.  His early youth found him working as a stagecoach driver, buffalo hunter and then as a police officer in Wichita, Kansas. On to Dodge City, Kansas where he established his […]

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  • Virgil Walter Earp

    1843 - 1905

    Virgil Walter Earp (1843 - 1905)

    Western Lawman. Born in Hartford Kentucky, he was brother to James, Morgan and Wyatt Earp. After serving in the Union Army during the Civil War, he was a freighter-teamster in Prescott, Arizona and was Deputy Marshal at Tucson, 1870 to 1879. In 1880, he was elected City Marshal of Tombstone and recruited brothers Wyatt and […]

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  • Morgan Earp

    1851 - 1882

    Morgan Earp (1851 - 1882)

    Western Lawman. The brother of Western figure Wyatt Earp, he is best known for the gunfight with Ike Clanton’s gang at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. Born in Marian County, Iowa, he was the youngest of “Fighting Earps.” His father moved the family, to San Bernardino, California in 1864. He married Luisa Houston in […]

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  • James Cooksey Earp

    1841 - 1926

    James Cooksey Earp (1841 - 1926)

    Western Figure. Born in Harford, Kentucky, he was the oldest brother of Virgil, James and Wyatt Earp. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted in the 17th Illinois Infantry, Union Army and was badly wounded in a battle at Fredericktown, Missouri, After the war, he traveled through different states before settling at Dodge […]

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  • Gabriel Duvall

    1752 - 1844

    Gabriel Duvall (1752 - 1844)

    US Supreme Court Justice,  US Congressman. He served as the Congressman from Maryland’s second district from November 1794 to March 1796. From 1796 to 1802 he was Chief Justice of the General Court of Maryland. He served as First Comptroller of the US Treasury for the next five years. President James Madison appointed him to […]

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  • Charles Morrison Durand

    1811 - 1905

    Charles Morrison Durand (1811 - 1905)

    Lawyer and author. He was convicted of complicity in the 1837 rebellion and, as a result, spent many years in exile in the United States.  Family links:  Spouses:  Sarah Bostwick Durand (1820 – 1855)*  Mary Ann Bradshaw Durand (1829 – 1918)*  Children:  Charles H. Durand (____ – 1847)*  Charles Albert Durand*  Helen Durand (1838 – […]

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  • John Riley “Jack” Duncan

    1850 - 1911

    John Riley “Jack” Duncan (1850 - 1911)

    Texas Ranger and Bounty Hunter. Born to James and Katherine Duncan. He was raised in a small farming community in Hardin County in north central Kentucky. He and his brothers tended to the family’s farm while his father served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. After the war, the family engaged in several […]

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  • Allen Welsh Dulles

    1893 - 1969

    Allen Welsh Dulles (1893 - 1969)

    US Diplomat, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director. He was the first civilian Director of the CIA and served in that position from February 1953 until November 1961, its longest-serving director as of 2014. He is considered one of the essential creators of the modern US intelligence system and was an indispensable guide to clandestine operations […]

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  • Sir James Dowling

    1787 - 1844

    Sir James Dowling (1787 - 1844)

    Judge. Born in London, a son of Vincent Dowling of Queen’s County, Ireland. He went to St Paul’s School, London, and then became a parliamentary reporter until he was called to the Bar in May 1815. He practised at the Middlesex Sessions and, with Archer Ryland, edited King’s Bench Reports 1822-31, in nine volumes, and […]

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  • William Joseph “Wild Bill” Donovan

    1883 - 1959

    William Joseph “Wild Bill” Donovan (1883 - 1959)

    World War I Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient, US Diplomat. Known by the sobriquet “Wild Bill”, he is most noted for founding and directing the United States Office of Strategic Services during World War II, which was the predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency. A trained lawyer, he began the practice of law in Buffalo, […]

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  • Martin Dies

    1870 - 1922

    Martin Dies (1870 - 1922)

    Congressman. Born in Jackson Parish, Louisiana and the son of David Warren and Sarah Jane (Pyburn) Dies. Martin attended public school in Texas, and acquired his law degree at the law department of the University of Texas at Austin and was admitted to the bar in 1893, practicing in Woodville, Texas. He edited a newspaper […]

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  • Alvin Adams Dewey, II

    1912 - 1987

    Alvin Adams Dewey, II (1912 - 1987)

    Law Officer. He was the Kansas Bureau of Investigations Special Agent who tracked down Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, who had murdered the Clutter Family in Holcomb, Kansas on November 15, 1959. The story around the Clutter murders and subsequent trial of their killers was made famous when they were depicted in writer Truman Capote’s […]

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  • Uli Derickson

    1944 - 2005

    Uli Derickson (1944 - 2005)

    American Folk Hero. She was a flight attendant aboard Trans World Airlines Flight 847 that was hijacked by Shiite Muslim terrorists in June 1985. The flight began in Athens, Greece and ended in Beirut, Lebanon, where the crew and 39 passengers were held for 17 days. She is credited with saving many lives by shielding […]

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  • William Dowdell Denson

    1913 - 1998

    William Dowdell Denson (1913 - 1998)

    Jurist.  His father was an established lawyer and politician in Birmingham AL and his paternal grandfather, William Henry Denson, was a Congressman from Alabama, 1893-1895.  He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, graduating cum laude in 1934, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Field Artillery of the United States Army. […]

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  • Jean-Nicolas Démeunier

    1751 - 1814

    Jean-Nicolas Démeunier (1751 - 1814)

    Lawyer. President of the National Assembly. Keen Bonapartist, promoted by Napoleon to count in 1808. Entered Pantheon 1814. (bio by: David Conway)

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  • Cartha “Deke” DeLoach

    1920 - 2013

    Cartha “Deke” DeLoach (1920 - 2013)

    Law Enforcement Figure. A 28 year veteran of the F.B.I., he rose from clerk to Deputy Director and is remembered as J. Edgar Hoover’s long time assistant. Raised in southeastern Georgia, he was a 1942 graduate of Florida’s Stetson University and at 21 became the youngest man ever accepted into the Bureau. Following his World […]

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  • Gordon Evans Dean

    1905 - 1958

    Gordon Evans Dean (1905 - 1958)

    Lawyer/Government Official.  After beginning his career as a Duke University law professor, Dean joined the New Deal in 1934, serving in the U.S. Department of Justice.  Under Attorney General Homer S. Cummings and, to a lesser extent, his successor Frank Murphy, Dean was an important Criminal Division attorney and public spokesman.  Dean helped to draft […]

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  • Raymond de Sèze

    1748 - 1828

    Raymond de Sèze (1748 - 1828)

    Lawyer of French King Louis XVI.

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  • Judge Ronald Norwood Davies

    1904 - 1996

    Judge Ronald Norwood Davies (1904 - 1996)

    Judge. Born in Crookston in Polk County in northwestern Minnesota. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of Liberal Arts at the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks, North Dakota in 1927.  In 1930, he attained a law degree from Georgetown University Law School in Washington, D.C. He practiced law in […]

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  • Theodore Davie

    1852 - 1898

    Theodore Davie (1852 - 1898)

    Lawyer, Judge, Politician, Premier of British Columbia. The brother of A.E.B. Davie, he was called to the bar in 1877 and elected to the British Columbia legislature in 1882. In 1889, when John Robson became premier, Theodore was chosen attorney general and in 1892 succeeded Robson as premier. In 1895 he resigned to become chief […]

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  • Clarence Darrow

    1857 - 1938

    Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)

    Attorney and Social Activist. Clarence Darrow was the son of former Unitarian minister Amirus Darrow, a freethinking iconoclast who sheltered escaping slaves in the Darrows’ Kinsman, Ohio home. Atrracted to debate by his father’s continual need to defend his political and religious positions, Darrow trained for one year as an undergraduate at Allegheny College and […]

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