Background
Stimson, Frederic Jesup was born on July 20, 1855 in Dedham, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Edward and Sarah Tufts (Richardson) Stimson.
Stimson, Frederic Jesup was born on July 20, 1855 in Dedham, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Edward and Sarah Tufts (Richardson) Stimson.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1876, Bachelor of Laws, 1878, Doctor of Laws, 1922.
Assistant attorney-general, Massachusetts, 1884-1885. General counsel United States Industrial Commission, 1898-1902, Massachusetts Commision on Corporation Laws, 1902-1903. Democratic candidate for Congress, 12th Massachusetts District, 1902.
Professor comparative legislation, Harvard, 1903-1914.
Massachusetts commissioner for uniformity of legislation. Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Argentine Republic, 1914-1921.
Special ambassador to Brazil, 1919. Chairman Democratic Massachusetts State Convention, 1904, 08.
Delegate and alternate-at-large, national conversations
Member National Institute Arts and Letters, Massachusetts History Society. Member German and French societies of Comparative Legislation, Academia Americana de Historia. Clubs: Somerset, Tavern (Boston), Harvard (New York).
Besides writing law books he has written several novels (the earlier ones under the pen-name “J. South. of Dale”), essays, et cetera
Married Elizabeth Bradlee Abbot, June 2, 1881. Married second, Mabel Ashhurst, November 12, 1902.