The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-06-11
LEGAL LIGHTS
DRAWN FROM
POLITICS
Washington Bar Entered
Via Government
Service
By JEAN ELIOT.
THE announcement that James
NJ. Beck, sometime Solicitor

NJ. Beck, sometime Solicitor
- General, who is to make
Washington his future home, will
he associated with Wade H. Ellis
Fin the practice of law, calls atten-
stion TO the number of shining lights
of the legal armament who have
entered the Washington bar through
ahe portals of the Government serv'
Ice.
: Mr.. Ellis, himself, came to Wash
1ngton from Ohio to serve as AS
eistant Attorney General. becoming
90 addicted to life in the Capital
shat he decided to make his per
manent home here. And Hampson
Gary, another member OF the urn,
who is a Texan, was in the state
,Bepartment-solic wasn't it,
when he first came to washington
and later was Washington's diplo
matte representative at Cairo, set
tIing down here when the passing
Of the Democratic administration
caused his retirement from public
pervice.
4: Robert Lansing. who was Rres-
staent Wilson's Secretary OF State,
is perhaps the most conspicuous
example of the Cabineteer engag-
ing in the practice OF law here.
But he scarcely serves to prove
sthe point, for Mr.. Lansing held an
important position in. the Wash
,ington bar long before he came 10
the Cabinet. Thomas Watt Greg
cry, sometime attorney general.
stook up the practice or law on MS
retirement and still maintains an
sbffice here, although the Gregorys
are now living in Texas and have
faded out of the Washington pic
Htire socially.
6regory's successors at the Depart
nnent of Justice, is also now al
filiated with the legal profession IN
rFVashington. Indeed, the former
members Of President Wilson's Cab
met are numerously represented
and at one time there was q shingle
hung out here reading Wilson and.
ACoIby''-and representing no less a
parsonage than the late President
Wilson, himself, In partnership
with cambridge Colby, at one time
his Secretary OF State. Joseph +.
sTumulty, Mr.. Wilson's private
secretary during all his period at
sthe White House, has also settled
down to the practice Of law in
Washington.
Presidents One-Tfme Secretary
Opens Law Office Hero.
President Coolidge's one-time Sec
rotary, C. Bascom Slemp, Is follow
ing in Mr.. Tumulty's footsteps, be-
ing now connected with the legal
profession here in Washington.
Chandler Anderson, who was coun-
selor of the State Department I'M
der Secretary lansing post
equivalent to the present rank OF
Undersecretary OF State-is q sue
eessfuI' lawyer here. And, indeed,
the list is quite too long to re-
member at a cursory glance.
Moreover, long vistas ara opened
up IL one begins to think back
over the distinguished men who
have graduated from the Senate to-
the Washington bar-former Sena-
tor Howard Sutherland, for ex-
ample, and former Senator Thomas
p. Gore. the blind Senator from
Oklahoma
=. There liz q rumor current, too,
that Senator Oscar Underwood
purchase Of historic Woodstock is
preliminary to q retirement from
public life in order to take up farm
Ing with a bit OF law practice in
Washington on the side. It is said
that the Senator isA't quite so
strong as he used to BE In his home
State and-but, after all, that Is
dealing in futures"
A.
= President and Mrs. Coolidge have
as their guest James B. Sheffield,