Educated at Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven and Yale University where he graduated in 1861, Baldwin then studied law at Yale until 1863. That year he was admitted to the bar and began a successful law practice. In 1869, he became professor of law at Yale and in 1871 published Baldwin's Connecticut Digest which became a highly respected research tool. During the 1870's, Baldwin became one of the nation's most eminent corporate lawyers and was called upon by the state of Connecticut to revise its statutes and civil rules of practice and procedure. In 1878, he helped to found the American Bar Association. Although initially a Republican, Baldwin went over to the Democrats in the 1884 election. In 1893, he was appointed to the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors and became its Chief Justice in 1907. He retired from the court in 1910 and the following year was elected governor of Connecticut, serving until 1915. He ran for the US Senate in 1915, but was defeated and returned to teaching at Yale. Baldwin was a prolific writer and produced several works on government, law, history and biography. These works include American Jurisprudence (1892), Historic Policy of the United States as to Annexation (1894), Cases on Railroad Law (1896), Modern Political Institutions (1898), American Railroad Law (1904), American Judiciary (1905), Relations of Education to Citizenship (1912), Justice Between Nations (1914), The Life and Letters of Simeon Baldwin (1919) and Young Man and the Law (1920). |
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