Background
Alvord, Ellsworth Chapman was born on October 21, 1895 in Washburn, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Elias Chapman and Miriam Lucy (Moore) Alvord.
Special Assistant to Secretary of the Treasury
Alvord, Ellsworth Chapman was born on October 21, 1895 in Washburn, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Elias Chapman and Miriam Lucy (Moore) Alvord.
Bachelor of Arts, University of Wisconsin, 1917. Bachelor of Laws, Columbia, 1921. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Northland College, 1956.
Admitted to New York bar, 1921, Supreme Court of the United States, 1926, United States District Court for District of Columbia, 1931. Assistant legislative counsel United States Senate, 1921-1924, House of Representatives, 1924-1926. Special assistant to Secretary of Treasury, 1926-1930.
Private practice since 1930. Member Alvord & Alvord, Washington, District of Columbia, since 1934. Director General dynamics corporation, Supply Chain Management Corporation, Crown Drug Company, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., State Loan & Finance Corporation, Jonnell Gas.
Formerly treasurer, member commission on federal finance United States Chamber of Commerce. Chairman of Commission on taxation and trustee United States Council of International Chamber of Commerce, vice chairman, commission on taxation. Chairman of the board of trustees Northland College.
President of the board of trustees Alvord Foundation. Director Foundation for Research of New York Academy Osteopathy. Trustee Lovelace Foundation for Medical Research.
Director Wisconsin Eastern Alumni Scholarship Fund. Board visitors Columbia University School Law. Member Columbia Law School Fund.
Served to First lieutenant Field Artillery, United States Army, 1917-1919. Member Tax Institute (advisory council), Mining and Metallurgy Society American (commission on taxation and depletion), International Fiscal Association, Newoomen Society North America, Academy Political Science, American Bar Association, American Judicature Society, District of Columbia Bar Association, American Mining Congress (commission on taxation), Phi Delta Phi. Indiana; Clubs: Burning Tree, Metropolitan, Columbia Country, National Press (Washington).
Married Kathryn McLean Watson, December 31, 1921. Children: Ellsworth Chapman, Betty Pierpont (Mistress William R. Loweth), Katharyn Joanne (Mistress Henry Remsen), Robert Watson.