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Up for sale the "9th Dean University of Pennsylvania Law School" Jefferson B. Fordham Hand Written Note on a 4X6 Card.
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Jefferson B. Fordham was
the ninth Dean of the University
of Pennsylvania Law School, and the tenth Dean of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Fordham
was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate
of the University of North
Carolina, where he also earned his master's degree. He received a
law degree from the Yale Law School in
1930, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif. Fordham
began his legal career working in Government service in Washington, DC and
private practice in New York, New York in the 1930s. He then served in the
Pacific as a lieutenant commander in the Navy in World War II. After returning
from the war theater, Fordham entered academic working as a professor of law at
the Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center and Vanderbilt University Law
School. In 1947, Fordham became the tenth Dean of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. He
then served as ninth Dean of the University
of Pennsylvania Law School from 1952 until he reached emeritus
status in 1970. Roberts Hall, Pepper Hall and the law school dormitories were
built during his tenure as Dean. From 1972 to 1993, Fordham was a
professor of law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of
Law. In
1974, Martin Meyerson, president
of the University and Bernard Wolfman, dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law
School, announced that the Jefferson B. Fordham Professorship of Law had been
created at the Law School in honor of Fordham. Fordham
was an expert on constitutional and municipal law.
