Charles Cotesworth Beaman
Born(1840-05-07)May 7, 1840
Houlton, Maine
DiedDecember 15, 1900(1900-12-15) (aged 60)
New York, New York
Education
OccupationLawyer
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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]

Biography

Charles Cotesworth Beaman was born in Houlton, Maine on May 7, 1840.[3]

He graduated from Harvard University and Harvard Law School.[4] He began practicing law in New York City in 1867.[3]

Beaman was also a vice president of the University Club of New York from 1890 to 1899 and a president from 1899 to 1900.[5]

He died at his home in New York on December 15, 1900.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "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.
  2. ↑ Hackett, Frank Warren. Reminiscences of the Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration 1872, The Alabama Claims. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911. 84–85.
  3. 1 2 The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. XV. James T. White & Company. 1916. pp. 167–168. Retrieved December 22, 2020 – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ "BeamanC". www.sgnhs.org. Archived from the original on March 12, 2005. Retrieved January 13, 2022.
  5. ↑ University Club of New York (1921). Annual of the University Club. p. 49.
  6. ↑ "Charles C. Beaman Dead". The New York Times. December 16, 1900. p. 2. Retrieved December 22, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
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