"George Wythe, America's First Law Professor and the Teacher of Jefferson, Marshall, and Clay"
"George Wythe, America's First Law Professor" is a 1933 M.A. thesis by W. Edwin Hemphill (1912 – 1983), from Emory University.[1] Hemphill was an archivist, historian and editor, and contributed greatly to George Wythe scholarship, among his other historical pursuits. In 1937 he received a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, with a dissertation also on George Wythe."[2]
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GEORGE WYTHE,
AMERICA'S FIRST LAW PROFESSOR AND THE
TEACHER OF JEFFERSON, MARSHALL, AND CLAY
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GEORGE WYTHE,
AMERICA'S FIRST LAW PROFESSOR AND THE
TEACHER OF JEFFERSON, MARSHALL, AND CLAY
A Thesis
Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate
School of Emory University
by
W. Edwin Hemphill
A.B., Hampton-Sydney College, 1932
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree of
Master of Arts
Emory University, Georgia
May, 1933
Preface
PREFACE
It is a surprising circumstance that no biography of George Wythe — not even a small "Life" — has ever been published. Such a treatise would be worthwhile and valuable (to mention only one reason) for the light which it would throw on the history of American education in the latter half of the eighteenth century.
The study is a preliminary step, perhaps, in that direction. Its aim is to prevent a factual and interpretative account of George Wythe's legal professsorship and of his relationships with his three greatest pupils. An adequate consideration of the influence upon American history which he exerted directly through them could not be confirmed within the present scope, but in the three chapters devoted to them we have suggested at least the main trends which future thought on the subject will follow.
The most complete edition of the writings of Jefferson, that published by the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, has been used throughout whenever possible; its lacunae must be filled from a number of sources.
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References
- ↑ Hemphill, William Edwin, "George Wythe: America's First Law Professor and the Teacher of Jefferson, Marshall and Clay," MA thesis, Emory University, 1933.
- ↑ Hemphill, "George Wythe the Colonial Briton: A Biographical Study of the Pre-Revolutionary Era in Virginia," PhD diss., University of Virginia, 1937.
