The national and private "Alabama claims" and their "final and amicable settlement"
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An historical address, delivered in Scituate, Rhode Island
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A Poem: Delivered Before The Franklin Debating Society, At Their Anniversary, January 17, 1831, Being The Birth-day Of Franklin
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A Poem: Delivered Before The Franklin Debating Society, At Their Anniversary, January 17, 1831, Being The Birth-day Of Franklin
Charles Cotesworth Beaman, Samuel Gardner Drake Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
John H. Eastburn, 1831
Poetry; American; General; Poetry; Poetry / American / General; Poetry / General; United States
Charles Cotesworth Beaman was a well-known American lawyer.
Background
Charles Beaman was born on May 7, 1840, in Houlton, Maine, the eldest son of Charles Cotesworth Beaman, a New England Congregational minister, and Mary Ann Stacey of Wiscasset, Maine. He traced his descent from Gamaliel Beaman, probably a native of Bridgnorth, Shropshire, who, emigrating at the age of twelve in 1635, settled in Massachusetts.
Education
Beaman's early education was received at Smithtown Seminary, North Scituate, Rhode Island, whence he proceeded in 1857 to Harvard, graduating in 1861. For the next two years he was principal of the academy at Marblehead, Massachussets, and then studied law at the Harvard Law School.
Career
Beaman’s Harvard prize essay, "Rights and Duties of Neutrals in Respect to the Armed Vessels of Belligerents, " published under a shorter title in the North American Review, was read by Senator Sumner, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations who thereupon engaged Beaman as private secretary, and after his call to the bar in November 1865, procured his appointment as clerk of the Committee. Beaman occupied this position for three years, during which he laid the foundation for an intimate knowledge of international law.
In 1868 he resigned and, going to New York, commenced practise. At this period the controversy between the United States and Great Britain respecting the depredations committed by Confederate cruisers was becoming acute and he made an exhaustive study of the subject. As a result he wrote The National and Private "Alabama Claims" and their "Final and Amicable Settlement, " which was published in March 1871. Two months later, by the Treaty of Washington, the Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration was constituted to adjudicate the dispute, and Beaman was appointed solicitor for the United States in the arbitration proceedings. At Geneva his intimate knowledge of all the details proved of inestimable value. He assisted J. C. Bancroft Davis, the United States agent, by arranging the evidence presented with the American case, representing both national and individual claims, and "did his work with admirable fidelity. "
On his return to New York in 1872 Beaman resumed practise. Following the arbitration award, a Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims was established at Washington, and he was retained as counsel by a number of the more important claimants. One remarkable case was that of the Texan Star, where he successfully maintained a claim for the destruction of that ship by a Confederate cruiser, although it had acquired a British registry in order to avoid capture. In connection with this work he wrote The Rights of Insurance Companies under the Geneva Award (1876). During the Geneva proceedings he had come into close contact with W. M. Evarts, and in 1879 he was offered and accepted a partnership in the firm of Evarts, Southmayd & Choate. He was endowed with exceptionally sound judgment, which, combined with a thorough grasp of legal principles and a wide experience of international matters, gave him unusual prestige professionally. Beaman died in New York in December 1900.
Achievements
Charles Beaman wrote: The National and Private Alabama Claims and their Final and Amicable Settlement (1871) and The Rights of Insurance Companies under the Geneva Award (1876).
Beaman served as the first-ever Solicitor General of the United States.
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Politics
Charles Beaman was much interested in politics, though the only occasion upon which he aspired for office was in 1894, when he was the unsuccessful Republican and Independent Democratic candidate for the office of judge of the New York supreme court.
Membership
Charles Beaman was a member of the Commission for the Revision of the Charter of the City of New York.
Personality
Personally Charles Beaman was much liked, possessing a genial temperament which attracted old and young, and a perfect sincerity of language and demeanor which never left any room for doubt as to his attitude toward any subject under discussion.
Connections
Charles Beaman married Hettie Sherman on August 19, 1874.