Frederick W. Lehmann was a prominent American lawyer, statesman, United States Solicitor General, and rare book collector. The United States Solicitor General is the individual tasked with arguing for the United States Government in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, when the government is party to a case. ...

Frederick William Lehmann was born February 28, 1853 in Prussia. His poor father Friedrich Wilhelm Lehmann emigrated to Cincinnati, Ohio, when Frederick was two, where he ruled the family with an iron hand. His mother Sophia died young. At age 10 Frederick ran away from home forever. As a vagabond boy, selling newspapers, working on farms, and herding sheep, he wandered across the Midwest, rarely going to school. In his teens, at the urging of his fellow sheep men, he took the stump for presidential candidate Horace Greeley and gave his first political speech. The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 The word Prussia (German: Preußen or Preussen, Polish: Prusy, Lithuanian: Prūsai, Latin: Borussia) has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad exclave of Russia and... Cincinnati, The Queen City and also referred to as Cincy, is a city in Southwestern Ohio on the Ohio River and is the county seat of Hamilton County6. ... Midwest States (United States of America, ND to OH) The Midwest is a common name for a region of the United States of America. ... Horace Greeley in his old age. ...

At 17 he worked as a farm-hand for Judge Epenetus Sears of Tabor, Iowa. Sears was impressed with the boy's ability and sent him to Tabor College, where he graduated in 1873. After "reading law" in his benefactor's office, Lehmann practiced in Tabor, Sidney, Nebraska City, and Des Moines, Iowa. He married Nora Stark of Indianola on December 23, 1879, and he represented the Wabash Railroad. A noted orator, he was active in Iowa politics, including the election of Governor Horace Boies. In 1890 he moved with his family to St. Louis, Missouri and continued to represent the Wabash while building a general law practice. In 1908 he was elected president of the American Bar Association and served twice. Tabor is a city located in Fremont County, Iowa. ... Tabor College is a four-year Christian liberal arts institution in Hillsboro, Kansas. ... 1873 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Sidney is a city located in Fremont County, Iowa. ... Nebraska City is a city located in Otoe County, Nebraska. ... The State Capitol of Iowa, featuring its golden dome. ... Indianola is the name of several places in the United States of America: Indianola, Illinois Indianola, Iowa Indianola, Mississippi Indianola, Nebraska Indianola, Oklahoma Indianola, Washington and the ghost town of Indianola, Texas. ... Categories: Rail stubs | Defunct railroad companies of the United States | Illinois railroads | Indiana railroads | Ohio railroads ... Orator is a Latin word for speaker (from the Latin verb oro, meaning I speak or I pray). In ancient Rome, the art of speaking in public (Ars Oratoria) was a professional competence especially cultivated by politicians and lawyers. ... State nickname: The Hawkeye State Other U.S. States Capital Des Moines Largest city Des Moines Governor Thomas Vilsack Official languages English Area 145,743 km² (26th)  - Land 144,701 km²  - Water 1,042 km² (0. ... 1890 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The Gateway Arch, shown here behind the Old Courthouse, is the most recognizable part of the St. ... 1908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The American Bar Association (ABA) is a voluntary bar association of lawyers which is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States. ...

President William Howard Taft named Lehmann as United States Solicitor General in 1910. In the Supreme Court of the United States Lehmann established the right to tax corporation incomes. He considered national bank affiliates to be illegal. About Lehmann's oral arguments, Justice Louis Brandeis said: "He was so eloquent, you hated to rule against Lehmann; you felt as though you were ruling against God." Order: 27th President Vice President: James S. Sherman Term of office: March 4, 1909 – March 3, 1913 Preceded by: Theodore Roosevelt Succeeded by: Woodrow Wilson Date of birth: September 15, 1857 Place of birth: Cincinnati, Ohio Date of death: March 8, 1930 Place of death: Washington D.C. First Lady... The United States Solicitor General is the individual tasked with arguing for the United States Government in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, when the government is party to a case. ... 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Seal of the Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the United States, located in Washington, D.C., is the highest federal court (see supreme court) in the United States; that is, it has ultimate judicial authority within the United States to interpret and decide questions of federal law, including the... A corporation is a legal entity (distinct from a natural person) that often has similar rights in law to those of a Civil law systems may refer to corporations as moral persons; they may also go by the name AS (anonymous society) or something similar, depending on language (see below). ... Oral arguments are verbal presentations to a judge or appellate court by a lawyer (or the party when representing themselves) of the legal reasons why they should prevail. ... Louis D. Brandeis Louis Dembitz Brandeis (November 13, 1856 - October 3, 1941) was an important American litigator, Justice, advocate of privacy, and developer of the Brandeis Brief. ...

In 1912 he returned to practice law in St. Louis with his sons. In 1914, however, he represented the United States at the ABC Powers Conference in which Argentina, Brazil, and Chile mediated between the United States and Mexico on the Veracruz Incident. Cases in his private practice established the right of the Associated Press to news as intellectual property, and he secured the Telephone Company's right to valuation on reproduction cost less depreciation. In 1918 he became counsel for the U. S. Railway Wage Commission. He supported the forced separation of investment banking, retail banking and brokerage (implemented in the Glass-Steagall Act) quoting: "One man cannot serve two masters." He vigorously opposed Prohibition. 1912 is a leap year starting on Monday. ... 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... The ABC Powers is a nickname for the South American countries of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. ... The United States Navy occupied the Mexican city of Veracruz for over six months in 1914, in response to the April 9, 1914 Tampico Affair, which involved the arrest of U.S. sailors by the regime of Mexican President Victoriano Huerta. ... Associated Press logo The Associated Press, or AP, is an American news agency that claims to be the worlds oldest and largest. ... NeWS, for Network extensible Window System, was a windowing system developed by Sun Microsystems in the late 1980s. ... In law, particularly in common law jurisdictions, intellectual property or IP refers to a legal entitlement which sometimes attaches to the expressed form of an idea or of other intangible subject matter. ... Declining-balance depreciation of a $50,000 asset with $6,500 salvage value over 20 years. ... 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Investment banks assist corporations in raising funds in the public markets (both equity and debt), as well as provide strategic advisory services for mergers, acquisitions and other types of transactions. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Two separate laws are known as the Glass-Steagall Act. ... Prohibition agents destroying barrels of alcohol. ...

Representing the U. S. government in the Supreme Court, he would "confess judgment," a practice in which the Solicitor General admits that the government has been wrong all along and just drops the case even when supported by a lower court's prior decision. Inscribed in the office rotunda of the Attorney General is Lehmann's famous saying: "The United States wins its point whenever justice is done its citizens in the courts." The Solicitor General is a cabinet position in several countries, dealing with legal affairs. ... In most common law jurisdictions, the Attorney General is the main legal adviser to the government, and in some jurisdictions may in addition have executive responsibility for law enforcement or responsibility for public prosecutions. ...

Frederick Lehmann always refused to run for public office, especially at the national party convention of the breakaway Gold Democrats (opposed to the Free Silver candidate William Jennings Bryan) in St. Louis which he chaired (being foreign-born, he could not run for President anyway), and he declined judgeships. In 1909 he drafted the charter by which the City of St. Louis is still run today. He was a founder of the St. Louis Art Museum and the State Historical Society of Missouri, president of the St. Louis Public Library, and a director of the St. Louis World's Fair (Louisiana Purchase Exposition) of 1904, in which he was host of the International Congress of Jurists and Lawyers. He was a bibliophile and he collected rare first editions of Charles Dickens, Robert Burns and others, and artworks of Aubrey Beardsley, George Cruikshank and Thomas Rowlandson. He and industrialist Wlliam K. Bixby started the Burns Society; he was twice president of the University Club. He had a remarkable (possibly eidetic) memory --- when writer Henry James visited his house, Lehmann could recite whole works that James himself had written but forgotten. For most his life Lehmann was in demand as a public speaker, which he thoroughly enjoyed. His published works included: John Marshall (1901); The Lawyer in American History (1906); Abraham Lincoln (1908); Conservatism in Legal Procedure (1909); Prohibition (1910); and The Law and the Newspaper (1917). In old age he auctioned off his rare book collections. He died September 12, 1931, survived by his wife and three sons, lawyers Sears Lehmann, Frederick W. Lehmann, Jr., and John Stark Lehmann. In economics, bimetallism is a monetary standard in which the value of the monetary unit can be expressed either with a certain amount of gold or with a certain amount of silver: the ratio between the two metals is fixed by law. ... William Jennings Bryan, 1907 William Jennings Bryan, (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) born in Salem, Illinois, was a gifted orator and three-time United States Democratic nominee for President. ... 1909 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Gateway Arch, shown here behind the Old Courthouse, is the most recognizable part of the St. ... Entrance to Creation Exhibit on the Pike Map of the St. ... Entrance to Creation Exhibit on the Pike Map of the St. ... 1904 is a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Bibliophilia is the love of books; a bibliophile is a lover of books. ... Charles Dickens used his rich imagination, sense of humour and detailed memories, particularly of his childhood, to enliven his fiction. ... Robert Burns, preeminent Scottish poet Robert Burns (January 25, 1759 – July 21, 1796) is the best known of the poets who have written in Lowland Scots. ... Aubrey Beardsley Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (August 21, 1872, Brighton, England - March 16, 1898, France) was an influential English artist, illustrator, and author. ... George Cruikshank (September 27, 1792 – February 1, 1878) was an English artist and caricaturist, well-known for his satirical illustrations of contemporary figures and events. ... Thomas Rowlandson (July 1756 - April 22, 1827) was an English caricaturist. ... Photographic memory or eidetic memory is the ability to recall images, sounds, or objects in memory with great accuracy and in seemingly unlimited volume. ... This article is about the writer; for the politician who was almost his contemporary see Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford. ... Portrait of Chief Justice John Marshall John Marshall (September 24, 1755–July 6, 1835), Chief Justice of the United States and principal founder of American constitutional law and the Supreme Court of the United States power of judicial review. ... Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), sometimes called Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, was the 16th (1861–1865) President of the United States, and the first president from the Republican Party. ... Prohibition agents destroying barrels of alcohol. ...

(Note: Frederick W. Lehmann's house at No. 10 Benton Place in St. Louis is now preserved as the "Lehmann House" Bed and Breakfast.) The Gateway Arch, shown here behind the Old Courthouse, is the most recognizable part of the St. ... B&B is also an acronym used for the American CBS soap opera The Bold and The Beautiful. ...