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Charles Noble Gregory

Professor of Law

Centurion, 1916–1932

Proposed by
Seth Low and Oswald G. Villard
born August 27, 1851
Unadilla, New York
died July 10, 1932
Washington, District of Columbia
elected December 2, 1916
Age sixty-five
Member portrait of Charles Noble Gregory
Member Photograph Albums CollectionAlbum 10, Leaf 12
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Century Memorial

Charles Noble Gregory’s affiliations as editor for seventeen years of the American Journal of International Law, and for fourteen years as Chairman of the American Bar Association’s international law committee, indicated his bent of mind. Before he devoted all his time and energy to that field of jurisprudence, he had occupied the post of dean successively in the law school of three great universities. But Gregory was no dry legal pedant. He believed, with Sir Walter Scott’s old Edinburgh barrister, that “a lawyer without history and literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason;” he had even, in his own younger days, ventured into poetical composition, and he knew his English authors. To his friends he was closely bound by his exquisite charm of manner; a quality not too often possessed and exercised in these later days.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1933 Century Association Yearbook

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