Paul Cravath
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Paul Drennan Cravath (1861–1940) was a millionaire lawyer of Manhattan and a partner of the law firm today known as Cravath Swaine & Moore. He graduated from Columbia Law School in 1886 and was awarded first Municipal Law prize and prize tutorship.
He joined the law firm of Blatchford, Seward & Griswold in 1899. His book of business included: Bethlehem Steel, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Chemical Bank, E. R. Squibb & Sons, Columbia Gas & Electric, Studebaker Corp.[1] His name was added to the firm's moniker in 1901.[2] Cravath was the authoritative head of the firm from 1906 until his death in 1940, and his conceptions of the management of a law office still control its operations.[3]
Paul Cravath was one of the founding officers of the Council on Foreign Relations in 1921. The founding President of the CFR was John W. Davis, a name partner of the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell.
He became chairman of the Metropolitan Opera in 1931.[4]
