Category
page 1Lawyers from Boston
Oliver Wendell Holmes
American jurist (1841–1935); US Supreme Court justice from 1902 to 1932
Louis Brandeis
American Supreme Court Justice (1856-1941)
Joe Kennedy III
United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland since 2022
Wendell Phillips
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)
William M. Evarts
American lawyer and politician (1818–1901)
Charles Colson
American lawyer, politician, public servant and Christian advocate (1931–2012)
Elliot Richardson
American lawyer and politician (1920-1999)
Charles Francis Adams Sr.
American historical editor, politician and diplomat from Massachusetts (1807–1886)
John J. Sullivan
American lawyer and diplomat (born 1959)
Gardiner Greene Hubbard
American lawyer (1822–1897)
Sumner Redstone
American businessman and media magnate (1923-2020)
John William McCormack
Speaker of the House (1962-1971); American politician from Massachusetts (1891-1980)
Paul Grattan Kirk Jr.
American politician
William Hooper
American politician (1742-1790)
Hiram Tuttle
American equestrian (1882–1956)
Robert Charles Winthrop
American politician (1809–1894)
Michelle Wu
Mayor of Boston since 2021 (born 1985)
Joseph Carter Abbott
American general, senator (1825-1881)
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
American educator and legal scholar (1856–1943)
Rufus Choate
American politician (1799–1859)
Edward Gourdin
Athletics competitor; Massachusetts Superior Court judge (1897–1966)
Adolf A. Berle
American diplomat (1895-1971)
Charles Devens
Union Army general (1820–1891)
Charles Sumner Hamlin
American politician (1861-1938)
Thomas Cushing
First Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor, briefly acting governor (1725-1788)
Jeffrey A. Rosen
American attorney
Anne Warner
American rower
Warren Rudman
American politician (1930-2012)
George V. Higgins
American novelist, lawyer, journalist, professor
William M. Butler
American politician from Massachusetts (1861-1937)
John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst
British lawyer and politician (1772–1863)
Edward M. Kennedy Jr.
American lawyer
Samuel D. Warren
American lawyer and businessman (1852–1910)
Robert W. Upton
American politician (1884-1972)
Robert Drinan
American politician (1920-2007)
Channing H. Cox
American politician (1879–1968)
Josiah Quincy II
American lawyer (1744–1775)
Royall Tyler
American playwright and jurist (1757-1826)
Charles Gordon Curtis
American engineer (1860–1953)
Samuel Wells
American politician and Governor of Maine (1801-1868)
John Pierpont
American poet, teacher, lawyer, merchant, Unitarian minister
Thomas W. Thompson
American politician
Patricia J. Williams
American legal and race critical scholar
Richard Henry Dana, Sr.
American writer and lawyer (1787–1879)
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott
author of the New York penal code (1830-1890)
Thomas H. Eliot
American politician (1907–1991)
Horace Gray
American judge (1828–1902)
Harold Hongju Koh
American lawyer
George Henry Gordon
Union Army General
Bill Bulger
politician in Massachusetts, US
William Bundy
American Presidential advisor (1917–2000)
Richard N. Goodwin
American speechwriter (1931-2018)
Cora Agnes Benneson
American attorney (1851–1919)
Chase Strangio
American lawyer and transgender rights activist
Oscar Brodney
American screenwriter and lawyer (1907–2008)
Austin Abbott
lawyer and academic born in Boston, Massachusetts (1831-1896)
George T. Conway III
American attorney and activist (1963-)
Boyce F. Martin Jr.
United States court of appeals judge (1935-2016)
Louise Day Hicks
American politician (1916-2003)
Mark Lawrence Wolf
American judge