Education
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
lawyer United States Attorney General
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
He was the father of Cornelius Wendell Wickersham, United States Army Brigadier General and Lawyer. In 1883 Wickersham entered the old established law firm of Strong and Cadwalader, and became a partner four years later. He held the office of Attorney General of the United States from 1909 to 1913, in the administration of President William Howard Taft.
From 1914 to 1916, Wickersham served as president of the Association of the Bar of the City of New New York
Wickersham was named by Woodrow Wilson to serve on the War Trade Board to Cuba soon after the United States entered World War I. In 1929, Herbert Hoover named him to the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, the socalled Wickersham Commission. Wickersham was President of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1933-1936.
Wickersham died in New York City in 1936, and was interred in Brookside Cemetery in Englewood, New Jersey. Since 1996, the Friends of the Law Library of the Library of Congress have presented an annual award named for Wickersham.