George W. Wickersham

Infobox US Cabinet official
name=George Woodward Wickersham


order=48th
title=United States Attorney General
term_start=March 4, 1909
term_end=March 4, 1913
predecessor=Charles J. Bonaparte
successor=James C. McReynolds
birth_date=birth date|1858|9|19|mf=y
birth_place=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
death_date=death date and age|1936|1|26|1858|9|19|mf=y
death_place=New York City, New York, U.S.
party=Republican
spouse=Mildred Wendell Wickersham
profession=Politician, Lawyer

George Woodward Wickersham (September 19, 1858 – January 26, 1936) was an American lawyer and Presidential Cabinet Secretary.

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1883 Wickersham entered the old established law firm of Strong and Cadwalader, and became a partner four years later.

He held the office of Attorney General of the United States from 1909 to 1913, in the administration of President William Howard Taft.

Wickersham was named by Woodrow Wilson to serve on the War Trade Board to Cuba soon after the United States entered World War I. In 1929 Herbert Hoover named him to the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, the so called Wickersham Commission.

Wickersham was President of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1933-1936. [ [http://www.cfr.org/about/history/cfr/appendix.html History of CFR - Council on Foreign Relations ] ]

Wickersham died in New York City in 1936, and was interred in Brookside Cemetery in Englewood, New Jersey. [ [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/whitten-wickware.html#RFP1BP2KV George Woodward Wickersham] , The Political Graveyard. Accessed August 22, 2007.]

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