Julian Codman
American lawyer

Julian Codman

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American lawyer
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Birth:
1 January 1870
Death:
1 January 1932
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Julian Codman (21 September 1870-30 December 1932) was born in Cotuit, Massachusetts as the son of Col. Charles Russell Codman and his wife, née Lucy Lyman Paine Sturgis. He was a lawyer who was a vigorous opponent of Prohibition, and who was also involved with the Anti-Imperialist League.
In 1897 he married Norah Chadwick, daughter of James Read Chadwick and his wife Katherine Maria Lyman. They had two daughters.

Anti-Imperialist affiliations

  • Executive Committee of New England Anti-Imperialist League 1902–04
  • Delegate of Democratic National Conventions 1904
  • Signatory of Philippine Independence Committee Petition 1904
  • Executive Committee of Anti-Imperialist League (1904–21) 1904
  • Vice president of Anti-Imperialist League (1904–21) 1918

Reform affiliations

  • VP Associated Charities
  • Headed the Constitutional Liberty League and served as counsel for the Joint Legislative Committee, was a foe of prohibition.
  • He twice represented the combined anti-Prohibition societies at Congressional hearings.

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Education

  • AB Harvard 1892,
  • Bar Massachusetts 1895,
  • LLB Harvard 1895

Military service

_US Army 1916–19

Party affiliation

Independent