Union Law School

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.

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

As Potter graduated in the spring of 1857, a historian in 2000 dismissed Union 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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