Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....RICHARDS, HARRY SANGER ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Tina Vickery tsvickery@gmail.com December 11, 2007, 4:21 pm Author: Beck, J. D. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT HEADS. HARRY SANGER RICHARDS, Dean of the College of Law. Born in Osceola, Clarke county, Iowa, November 20, 1868. Attended the public schools: graduated from the Academic Department of Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa, in 1883; graduated from the College of Liberal Arts of the State University of Iowa, in 1892, with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy; graduated from the Law School of Harvard University in 1895, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws; served a clerk in the office of Horatio D. Wood, St. Louis, Mo., during the year 1896; located for the practice of law at Ottumwa, Iowa, in 1897; was elected Professor of Law in the Law Department of the State University of Iowa in 1898; was elected Dean of the College of Law, University of Wisconsin, in June, 1903. Was granted the degree of Doctor of Laws by the State University of Iowa in June 1904. Member of Phi Beta Kappa, legal fraternity of Phi Delta Phi, honorary legal fraternity Theta Kappa Nu; member of American Bar Association, Wisconsin Bar Association; member of Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools, 1903-06; member from Wisconsin General Council, American Bar Association, 1904- 06; chairman of section on Legal Education, American Bar Association, 1908-09; author of various papers dealing with legal education read before the Association of American Law Schools and American Bar Association. Additional Comments: Beck, J. D. . The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin. Madison, Wis.: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer, 1909. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1909/bios/richards1027gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb