Harrison Tweed was an American lawyer and civic leader.
14 Facts About Harrison Tweed
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Harrison Tweed was the son of Charles Harrison Tweed, the general counsel for the Central Pacific Railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, and other affiliated railroad corporations, and his wife, Minerva Evarts.
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Milbank, Harrison Tweed was the outside legal arm of Chase Manhattan Bank and the Rockefeller family.
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Harrison Tweed specialized in drafting wills and trust agreements, for the administering of major estates.
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Harrison Tweed 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.
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Harrison Tweed became an enthusiastic convert to the necessity of providing competent legal services to all people.
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In 1945, Harrison Tweed was elected president of the New York City bar association.
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In 1947, Harrison Tweed became president of the American Law Institute.
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Harrison Tweed took a light, subtle approach, usually talking around the matter at hand so as to envelop the object of his attention; only occasionally did he take a direct part in the proceedings over which he smoothly presided.
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Refreshment of the law, Harrison Tweed believed, was a professional responsibility.
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Harrison Tweed wrote articles, spoke to lawyers' groups, buttonholed bar leaders, and organized conferences.
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Harrison Tweed served as an overseer of Harvard University from 1950 to 1956, and from 1951 to 1967 he was a trustee of the Cooper Union Center for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City.
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In 1963, at the request of US President John F Kennedy, Tweed became co-chairman of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a position that he held for two years.
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Harrison Tweed married Barbara Banning on 21 November 1942; they had one child.