Background
Dession, George Hathaway was born on December 17, 1905 in Brooklyn. Son of Alphonse and Nellie Louise (Piguet) Dession.
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George Hathaway Dession
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Bachelor of Arts, Cornell, 1926, Master of Arts, 1927, LL. B., Yale, 1930, Master of Arts (honorary), 1938.
Career
Admitted to Connecticut bar, 1930, New York State bar, 1932. Member of law faculty, Yale, since 1931, with faculties of psychiatry public health since 1935, Lincolnshire professor of law since 1938. Fellow Social Science Research Council, 1933-1934.
Fellow John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1951-1952.
Special assistant to attorney general of the United States (antitrust and criminal division), 1938-1943, special counsel campaign expenditures investigation committee, United States House of Republican, 1944-1945. Attorney, United States Securities and Exchange Commission (protective committee study), 1934-1935.
Intermittent legal assignments United States Government, 1934-1945. Director of crisis and disaster study, Rand Corporation, 1948-1949.
Legal consultant to the Forensic Committee of the Group for the Advancement Psychiatry, 1950.
Achievements
Membership
Member Supreme Court of the United States Court Advisory Committee on rules of criminal procedure, 1941-1946. Member Bars of the United States District Courts for Connecticut and the Eastern District of Kentucky. Member International Society of Criminology (representative association as consultant to economic and social counsel, United Nations, 1950), American Society Public Administration, Academy Political Science, Policy Science Foundation (secretary-treasurer and director), Connecticut Joint Committee of State Mental Hospitals (vice chairman), Connecticut governments Committee for Study and Prevention of Sex Crimes (chairman), Connecticut State Bar Association (member commission on criminal law), Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene (director 1945-1946), New Haven Company Bar Association, Delta Sigma Rho, Delta Theta Phi.
Connections
Married Anna Margaret James, September 10, 1932.
