William Dameron Guthrie
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William Dameron Guthrie (born 1859, San Francisco, California; died 1935) was an American lawyer and educator. He was educated in Paris, in England, and at the Columbia Law School (1879-80). In his practice before the United States Supreme Court he argued the income tax, California irrigation, Illinois inheritance tax, oleomargarine, and Kansas City stockyards rate cases. He was Storrs lecturer at Yale University in 1907-08 and was Ruggles Professor of Constitutional Law at Columbia University from 1908-22. Besides his contributions to periodicals on legal and political subjects, he was author of Lectures on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution (1898) and Introduction to American Constitutional Law (1913).
Dameron was President of the Association of the Bar of New York City in 1926.
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- TIME magazine item on Guthrie, Dec. 13, 1926
- Source for death date and dates of Ruggles professorship (historycooperative.org)
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