Background
Seward, George Chester was born on August 4, 1910 in Omaha. Son of George Francis and Ada Leona (Rugh) Seward.
Seward, George Chester was born on August 4, 1910 in Omaha. Son of George Francis and Ada Leona (Rugh) Seward.
Bachelor, University Virginia, 1933. Bachelor of Laws, University Virginia, 1936.
With Shearman & Sterling, New York City, 1936-1953, Seward & Kissel LLP, New York City, since 1953. Director Witherbee Sherman Corporation, 1952-1966, president 1964-1966, Howmet Corporation, 1955-1975, Chas. P. Young Company, 1965-1972, Howmedica Inc., 1970-1972, Benson Mines, Inc., 1980-1985.
Trustee Benson Iron Ore Trust, 1969-1980.
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Author: Basic Corporate Practice, 1977, Seward and Related Families, 1994. Co-author: Model Business Corporation Act Annotated, 1960, We Remember Carroll, 1992.
Trustee Arts and Sciences Council University Virginia, 1983-1993, president, 1991-1993. Trustee Edwin Gould Foundation for Children, 1955-1996, Nature Conservancy of Eastern Long Island, 1969-1980, New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1991-2006. Fellow: New York State Bar Foundation, American Bar Foundation.
Member: American Bar Association (chairman section committee corporation laws 1952-1958, chairman business law section 1958-1959, house of deals 1959-1960, chairman section banking committee 1960-1961, house of deals 1963-1974, joint committee with American Law Institute on continuing legal education 1965-1974), International Bar Association (honorary life president, lecturer series by heads of state named in his honor, New Delhi 1988, Lisbon 1992, Budapest 1993, Geneva 1994), Downtown Association (New York City), Greencroft Club (Charlottesville, Virginia), University Club (Chicago), Metropolitan Club (Washington), Bohemian Club (San Francisco), Gardiner's Bay Country Club (Shelter Island, New York ), New York Yacht Club, Knickerbocker Club, Delta Sigma Rho, Theta Chi, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa Fellows (president 1969-1975), Order of Coif, Raven Society, Cum Laude Society.
Married Carroll Frances McKay, December 12, 1936 (deceased 1991). Children: Gordon Day, Patricia McKay (Mistress Dryden G. Liddle), James Pickett, Deborah Carroll (Mistress R. Thomas Coleman).