Frederick William Lehmann

Frederick William Lehmann ( born February 28, 1853 in Prussia; † September 12, 1931 in St. Louis, Missouri) was an American lawyer and United States Solicitor General.

Biography

The a Prussian immigrant family that were found Lehmann studied at Tabor College in Kansas and acquired there in 1873 a Bachelor of Arts ( AB). After his admission to the bar in the state of Iowa, he worked as a lawyer and was from 1895 to 1905 Partner of the firm Boyle, Priest & Lehmann. At the same time he was between 1900 and 1910 President of the Public Library of St. Louis and engaged for the next Founded in 1879 Saint Louis Art Museum and the Historical Society of the State of Missouri. As a member of the Democratic Party, he took in 1888 as a delegate from Iowa attended the Democratic National Convention.

In 1905 he became a partner in the law firm of Lehmann & Lehmann and was 1908-1909 and President of the American Lawyers Association American Bar Association. In December 1910 Frederick William Lehmann of U.S. President William Howard Taft was appointed Solicitor General and adopted as such until July 1912 the third rank of the hierarchy in the Ministry of Justice of the United States.

After his retirement from government service, he worked as a lawyer again and took on behalf of President Woodrow Wilson in 1914 with Joseph Rucker Lamar, the United States at a conference of the ABC States in Niagara Falls ( Canada).