{"id":1973,"date":"2012-08-01T12:52:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T19:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1973"},"modified":"2014-09-24T13:33:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T20:33:21","slug":"taylor-hannis-1851-1922","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1973","title":{"rendered":"TAYLOR, HANNIS, 1851-1922"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attorney, legal\u00a0educator, diplomat, writer. Born&#8211; Sept. 12, 1851 in New Bern, N. C. Parents&#8211; Richard Nixon and Susan (Stevenson) Taylor. Married&#8211; Lenora Le Baron, May 8, 1878. Children&#8211; Five. Education&#8211; attended Lovejoy&#8217;s School for Boys;\u00a0the University of North Carolina; studied law in Mobile with firm of Anderson and Bond; admitted to bar, 1869; practiced before Alabama Supreme Court (1872) and U.S. Supreme Court (1885). First position was as solicitor for Baldwin Co., Ala.; served several times as president of Alabama Bar Association; taught law at George Washington University in 1892; minister to Spain during the second Cleveland administration, 1893-1897; special U.S. counsel in the Alaskan Boundary claims case, 1903; before Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, 1904. Received several honorary doctorates. Died December 26, 1922.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Baldwin County Genealogical Trails website.<\/p>\n<p>Owen&#8217;s Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Vol. IV.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cicero, a Sketch of His Life and Works. Chicago; A.C. McClurg, 1918.<\/p>\n<p>A Comparative Study of Roman and English Law in the Old World and the New. New Orleans; L. Graham and Son, 1899.<\/p>\n<p>The Constitutional Crisis in Great Britain&#8230;. Concord, N.H.; The Rumford Press, 1910.<\/p>\n<p>Due Process of Law and the Equal Protection of the Laws&#8230;. Chicago; Callaghan and Co., 1917.<\/p>\n<p>The Freedom of the Press. Washington, D.C.; Judd, 1892.<\/p>\n<p>Jurisdiction and Procedure of the Supreme Court of the United States. Rochester; The Lawyer&#8217;s Co-operative Pub. Co., 1905.<\/p>\n<p>Legitimate Functions of Judge-Made Law. Richmond; E. Waddey Co., 1905.<\/p>\n<p>A Memorial in Behalf of the Architect of Our Federal Constitution, Pelatiah Webster of Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1908.<\/p>\n<p>The Origin and Growth of the American Constitution. Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1911.<\/p>\n<p>The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution. Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1889.<\/p>\n<p>The Real Authorship of the Constitution of the United States Explained. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1912.<\/p>\n<p>Rule of Treaty Construction. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1913.<\/p>\n<p>The Science of Jurisprudence&#8230;. New York; Macmillan, 1908.<\/p>\n<p>A Treatise on International Public Law. Chicago; Callaghan and Co., 1901.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A collection of the papers of Hannis Taylor is held by the special collections department of the Bounds Law Library at the University of Alabama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Attorney, legal\u00a0educator, diplomat, writer. Born&#8211; Sept. 12, 1851 in New Bern, N. C. Parents&#8211; Richard Nixon and Susan (Stevenson) Taylor. Married&#8211; Lenora Le Baron, May 8, 1878. Children&#8211; Five. Education&#8211; attended Lovejoy&#8217;s School for Boys;\u00a0the University of North Carolina; studied law in Mobile with firm of Anderson and Bond; admitted to bar, 1869; practiced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-t-v"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3834,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions\/3834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}