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Early life and career of Abraham Lincoln
Early life and career of Abraham Lincoln: Kentucky birth 1809, Indiana boyhood 1816-1830, New Salem years, self-taught law, and four Whig terms in the Illinois legislature from 1834.
Early life and career of Barack Obama
Early life and career of Barack Obama: born 1961 in Honolulu, raised in Hawaii and Indonesia, Columbia 1983, Chicago community organizer 1985-1988, Harvard Law Review president 1990, Illinois State Senator 1996, US Senator 2004.
Edgardo Ramos
Edgardo Ramos, born in 1960 in Ponce, Puerto Rico, is a United States district judge for the Southern District of New York, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2011.
Edith B. Clement
Edith B. Clement, born Edith Brown Clement in 1948, is an American judge on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2001.
Edith H. Jones
Edith Hollan Jones, born 1949, is an American judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1985.
Edmond E. Chang
Edmond E. Chang, also known as Edmond E-Min Chang, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Illinois since 2010.
Edmond Picard
Edmond Picard (1836–1924) was a Belgian jurist, legal publisher, and socialist senator who founded the 136-volume Pandectes belges and mentored young writers including Emile Verhaeren and Maurice Maeterlinck.
Edmund A. Sargus, Jr.
Edmund A. Sargus, Jr. (born 1953) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Ohio since 1996.
Edmund Barton
Sir Edmund Barton (1849-1920), Australian federationist, first prime minister 1901-1903, and High Court justice 1903-1920; led the 1897-98 Constitution drafting convention.
Edmund Berry Godfrey
Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey (1621–1678), Westminster magistrate who took Titus Oates's Popish Plot deposition; found dead near Primrose Hill, 17 October 1678; his death fueled anti-Catholic panic; three men hanged on perjured evidence.
Edmund G. LaCour, Jr.
Edmund G. LaCour, Jr. is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Alabama since 2025, appointed by President Trump.
Edward Brooke
Edward William Brooke III (1919-2015), Massachusetts Republican senator 1967-1979, first African American elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote and first Black state attorney general; Fair Housing Act co-sponsor.
Edward Carson
Edward Carson (1854–1935), Baron Carson of Duncairn, Dublin-born barrister and Irish unionist leader; Wilde's 1895 examiner, UVF founder, First Lord of the Admiralty 1916–17, and law lord.
Edward Coke
Edward Coke (1552–1634), English jurist, Chief Justice of Common Pleas and King's Bench, attorney general under Elizabeth I; author of the Reports and Institutes, known for Bonham's Case and Magna Carta revival.
Edward Douglass White
Edward Douglass White (1845-1921), Louisiana Democrat, Confederate veteran, and U.S. senator, was the first Associate Justice elevated to Chief Justice, serving 1894-1921; known for the rule of reason, Guinn v. United States, and the Insular Cases.
Edward E. Carnes
Edward E. Carnes, born 1950 in Albertville, Alabama, is a senior judge of the Eleventh Circuit who served as its chief judge from 2013 to 2020.
Edward F. Cox
Edward F. Cox (Edward Finch Cox), American corporate lawyer and Chairman of the New York Republican Party 2009-2019; son-in-law of Richard Nixon, married Patricia Nixon in 1971; Princeton 1968, Harvard Law 1972, Reagan's Synthetic Fuels Corporation general counsel. Not the Texas attorney Ed Cox.
Edward F. Shea
Edward F. Shea (born 1942) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Washington since 2012.
Edward H. Levi
Edward H. Levi (1911-2000), American legal scholar, University of Chicago Law School dean, first provost and president, and 71st U.S. Attorney General (1975-1977) under Gerald Ford, known for restoring Justice Department integrity after Watergate and for An Introduction to Legal Reasoning.
Edward J. Davila
Edward John Davila is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Northern District of California, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2011.
Edward J. Lodge
Edward J. Lodge, born in 1933, is a senior United States district judge for the District of Idaho, appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1989.
Edward L. Artau
Edward L. Artau (born 1964) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Florida since 2025, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Edward L. Filippine
Edward Louis Filippine (born 1930) is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri since 1995.
Edward L. Masry
Edward L. Masry (1932-2005), California attorney and Thousand Oaks councilman whose firm, with legal assistant Erin Brockovich, won a $333 million groundwater contamination settlement from PG&E, later portrayed by Albert Finney in the 2000 film Erin Brockovich.
Edward M. Chen
Edward Milton Chen (born 1953) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Northern District of California since 2022.
Edward M. Kennedy Jr.
Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy Jr. (born 1961) is an American health care attorney, disability rights advocate, AAPD board chair, and former Connecticut State Senator (12th District, 2015-2019), eldest son of Senator Ted Kennedy; distinct from Massachusetts Senator Edward J. Kennedy of Lowell.
Edward Manibusan
Edward Manibusan is an American politician who has served as Attorney General of the Northern Mariana Islands since 2015, the Commonwealth's first elected Attorney General.
Edward R. Korman
Edward R. Korman, born 1942, is a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of New York, appointed by President Reagan in 1985.
Edward S. Kiel
Edward S. Kiel, born in 1965 in Daegu, South Korea, is New Jersey's first Korean American United States district judge, confirmed in 2024 after serving as a magistrate judge.
Edwin Meese
Edwin Meese III (born 1931), 75th U.S. Attorney General under Ronald Reagan (1985–1988) and former White House counselor; launched the originalism movement with his 1985 ABA speech, disclosed the Iran-contra diversion in November 1986, and was investigated three times by independent counsels without prosecution.