Francis T.P. Plimpton

Francis Taylor Pearsons Plimpton (December 7, 1900 – July 30, 1983) was an American diplomat, New York City lawyer, partner at the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton and a president of the New York City Bar Association.

Plimpton was born on East 33rd Street in New York City on December 7, 1900, the son of George Arthur Plimpton, of Walpole, Massachusetts, and his first wife, Francis Taylor (Pearsons). He was descended from an old and very prominent Boston family. His ancestor John Plympton arrived in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1630.

Plimpton was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Amherst College, and Harvard Law School, where he was a roommate of Adlai Stevenson. On a recommendation from Felix Frankfurter, Plimpton began writing editorials on legal issues for the New York World for Walter Lippmann while still at Harvard.

After graduating from Harvard, Plimpton was hired by Elihu Root’s law firm, Root, Clark, Buckner, Howland & Ballantine, and from 1929 to 1931 he took charge of the firm’s Paris office. In 1926, he married Pauline, the daughter of the botanist Oakes Ames; they had four children, one of whom was George Plimpton, a writer and founder of the Paris Review.

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