James Crawford Biggs

James Crawford Biggs ( born August 29, 1872 in Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina; † January 30, 1960 in Raleigh, North Carolina ) was an American politician, lawyer and United States Solicitor General.

Biography

After visiting the Horner Military School in his native city from 1883 to 1887, he later studied philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1893 and earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA Philosophy). He then completed a postgraduate study of law at the Law School of the University, finished this in 1894 and was shortly thereafter admitted to the bar in the state of North Carolina. Then he made 1894-1898 his military service in the State Guard of North Carolina.

At the same time from 1897 to 1898 he was mayor of Oxford; thereafter he accepted an appointment as a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and taught there until 1900. In 1905 he was for a short time deputy in the House of Representatives from North Carolina, but soon took on the office of the registrar (Reporter ) on Supreme Court ( Supreme Court ) of North Carolina. After that, he was 1907-1911 judge in a High Court ( Superior Court ).

After a subsequent year as a professor of law at Trinity Law School, he was back working as a lawyer since 1912. In May 1933 he was appointed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Solicitor General and held the third most important office in the Justice Department of the United States until March 1935.