Union Law School

Not to be confused with the Union College of Law, the original name of the Northwestern University School of Law.

Union Law School was a law school located in Easton, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1846 by Washington McCartney, and incorporated by the Pennsylvania legislature in 1854 as "Union Law School"; and was still operating at the time of his death in 1856.[1] Its alumni included Congressman Philip Johnson and Wisconsin state senator Robert L. D. Potter.

While Potter graduated in the spring of 1857, a 2000 historian dismisses Union in an endnote as "a one-man operation that died with him" [i.e., McCartney].[2]

References

  1. ↑ "McCartney, Hon. Washington, LL.D." in The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Pennsylvania of the Nineteenth Century Philadelphia: Galaxy Publishing Company, 1874; p. 459
  2. ↑ Knupfer, Peter B. Union As It Is: Constitutional Unionism and Sectional Compromise, 1787-1861 Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000; chapter 2, endnote 54

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