New-York tribune., 1900-05-17
TRACY IN A NEW LAW FIRM
HE LEAVES BOARDMAN & PLATT TO
JOIN COUDERT BROTHERS.

General Benjamin F. Tracy has retired from
The law firm Of Tracy Boardman e. Platt, Of
which he was the senior member for years, and
has associated himself with the firm of Coudert
Brothers. Announcement of the change was
made yesterday in a circular issued by Coudert
Brothers. General Tracys name the
circular that of the firms counsel" and
other names on the circular those of Fred
eric r. Coudert, Paul Fuller Daniel j. Holden
Frederic r. Coudert. jr.. Lorenzo Semple, John
P. Murray. Charles B. Samuels and Charles Du-
pont Coudert.
A B. Boardman, of the firm which until the
late change has been Tracy. Boardman & Platt,
was seen last evening by Tribune reporter at
his house, No. 40 West Fifty -third-st In ex-
planning the reasons why General Tracy left the
Platt firm for that of Coudert Brothers, he made
this brief statement:
c6iaSa general Traey's granddaughter married F.
not wish TO be burdened with business cares Cen
As 1t was good "S opportunty for Mr. Tracy. our
firm agreed with him that it wise for him to
Of relations ard feelings exist between the two
rms b NJ Ne there isn't the sghtest trouble 0u
you can ask him what he thinks of me.
Paul Fuller, of the firm of Coudert Brothers. who
lives at No 50 Washington Square West. not
at home last evening when reporter called His
son. Paul Fuller. jr. said that, although he him
self had not been connected in any way with the
firm for year. yet he was morally certain that
Mr.. Boardmans reasons why General Tracy had
made this change exactly those that the mem
bcrS OF Coudert Brothers would give. THE idea
that there is trouble between General Tracy and
The firm he has left" asserted Mr.. Fuller sis alb
surd"
Frank H. Platt at his homo. No. 242
reporter MI Patt said General ai Tracy rad joined
the firm of Co9dert Brothers. because of disso-
The announcement of the dissolution had been
say nothing as to why the firm dissolved: He
the Coudert Brothers because of his reiation to
them
General Benjamin Franklin Tracy born on
April 26, 1880, in Owego, Tioga County, and
admitted to the bar at the age of twenty-one. He
practised law in Owego ten years and elected
and reelected to the office of DistrictAttorney Of
Tioga County before ne thirty years old. In
1861 he elected to the Assembly, and before
the end of his term Assembyman he raised two
regiments of volunteers and went to the front In
the Civil War. At the close OF the war he was
brigadiergeneral and had received medal of honor
for galantry
In 1865 General Tracy became member of the
law firm of Benedict. Burr & Benedict. in Brook
lyn In the following year he appointed
United States District Attorney for the Eastern
District of New-York. He reappointed to the
office by President Grant and continued In the
ofnce until 1873. In 1881 General Tracy nom
mated for Mayor of Brooklyn but he withdrew In
favor OF Seth Low. In the same year he was ap-
pointed by Governor Cornell TO a seat on the
bench of the Court of Appeals fill a vacancy
He was defeated the next year as the Republican
candidate for Justice of the Supreme Court and he
was defeated again in 1886 as the Republican can
dicato for District Attorney of Kings County
General Tracy became Secretary of the Navy Ia
President Harrsons Cabinet in 1889. and at the
close of his term Secretary he resumed the prec-
tice of law In this city, becoming a member of the
'. . m m
her OF the Greater New-York Charter Commission
IN 1891 he was the Republican candidate for Mayor
of New-York His candidacy helped TO defeat Seth
Low, the Citizens Union candidate and 10 elect
Robert A Van Wyck the Tammany candidate