11 Facts About Walter Nelles

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Walter Nelles was an American lawyer and law professor.

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Walter Nelles was born April 21,1883 in Leavenworth, Kansas, the son of George Thomas Nelles, a civil engineer.

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3.

Walter Nelles attended the prestigious Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire in preparation for an Ivy League collegiate education.

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Walter Nelles then left Madison to return to Harvard, receiving a Master's degree in 1908 before moving on Harvard Law School.

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In 1920, Nelles served on the defense team of the five Socialist members of the New York State Assembly who were denied the right to assume the seats to which they had been elected by the Republican Speaker of the House Thaddeus C Sweet, working in concert with members of both the Republican and Democratic Parties.

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Liberal Walter Nelles sought to mediate sectarian fighting among American radicals, sitting with Roger Baldwin and others on a special committee established in August 1922 to investigate charges levied by Abraham Cahan and The Jewish Daily Forward that the Friends of Soviet Russia organization was engaged in the misappropriation of funds raised for the relief of famine in Soviet Russia.

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The committee ultimately exonerated the FSR of these charges, but Walter Nelles declined to sign the final report because he was appointed as a law partner as counsel for that organization, a circumstance that created a potential conflict of interest.

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8.

Shorr and Walter Nelles served as counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union.

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Walter Nelles later served on the faculty of Yale Law School where he often taught courses on the history of labor injunctions.

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Walter Nelles was a social democrat and a member of the League for Industrial Democracy during the 1920s.

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11.

Walter Nelles died at the age of 53 on April 1,1937 in New Haven, Connecticut following a brief illness.

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