Harrison Tweed
| Harrison Tweed | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 18, 1885 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | June 16, 1969 (aged 83) |
| Education | St. Mark's School |
| Alma mater |
Harvard College (B.A., 1907) Harvard Law School (LL.B., 1910) |
| Occupation | Lawyer, civic leader |
| Spouse(s) | Eleanor Roelker (m. 1914-1928, divorced) Blanche Oelrichs (m. 1929-1942, divorced) Barbara Banning (m. 1942-1969, his death) |
| Children | Katharine Winthrop Tweed (2 other children) |
| Parent(s) | Charles Harrison Tweed Helen Mierva Evarts Tweed |
| Relatives | William M. Evarts (grandfather) |
Harrison Tweed (October 18, 1885 – June 16, 1969) was an American lawyer and civic leader.
Tweed was born in New York City on October 18, 1885. He was the son of Charles Harrison Tweed, the general counsel for the Central Pacific Railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio and other affiliated railroad corporations, and his wife, (Helen) Minerva Evarts. His maternal grandfather was William M. Evarts, who served successively from 1868 to 1891 as United States Attorney General, United States Secretary of State, and United States Senator from New York, and was one of the leaders of the American Bar Association. His maternal great, great, great grandfather was Paul Dudley Sargent Revolutionary war hero, one of the founding overseers of Bowdoin College. Tweed graduated from St. Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts, and received a B.A. from Harvard College in 1907. At Harvard Law School, he served on the law review and was awarded an LL.B. in 1910.
His career at the bar began with a clerkship in the office of Byrne and Cutcheon in New York City. After service as a captain in World War I, he joined one of the predecessor firms to Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, where he remained as a partner the remainder of his life. Milbank, Tweed was the outside legal arm of Chase Manhattan Bank and the Rockefeller family. Tweed specialized in drafting wills and trust agreements, for the administering of major estates. He wrote briefs in litigation arising out of them and argued, and won, several notable appeals in the New York courts and the United States Supreme Court. Because he was born partially deaf, he never tried a case. In conferences with other lawyers he usually spoke last, and his views generally became the group's consensus. Imitating Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, he had no desk in his office, instead writing at a lectern.
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