Charles Cotesworth Beaman
Charles Cotesworth Beaman, Sr. (May 7, 1840 – December 15, 1900) was an American lawyer who wrote The National and Private Alabama Claims and their Final and Amicable Settlement (1871).[1] In December 1870 he served as the first-ever Solicitor General of the United States, a position created to compile the individual claims of losses caused by Confederate raider ships during the United States Civil War.[2]
References
- ↑ Charles Cotesworth Beaman."Dictionary of American Biography Base Set. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928-1936. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2005. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC.
- ↑ Hackett, Frank Warren. Reminiscences of the Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration 1872, The Alabama Claims. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911. 84-5.
External links
- Saint-Gaudens National Historical Site
- Charles C. Beaman
- William Evarts & Hettie Evarts Beaman
- William Maxwell Evarts Bust
- Saint-Gaudens' General William T. Sherman
- Works by or about Charles Cotesworth Beaman at Internet Archive
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