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International Arbitration: Annual Address Before The Literary Societies Of Vanderbilt University, June 14, 1904
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Jacob McGavock Dickinson
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Jacob McGavock Dickinson was an American lawyer and a secretary of war. In his profession he attained a standing that was very high, and of stainless repute.
Background
Jacob McGavock Dickinson was born on January 30, 1851 in Columbus, Mississippi, United States. He was the son of Henry and Anna (McGavock) Dickinson. His father was long a chancery judge (a vice chancellor, 54) of the state; his mother’s grandfather was Felix Grundy.
Education
Dickinson took a college course, graduating with distinction, in the University of Nashville ( Bachelor of Arts 1871, Master of Arts 1872), briefly studied law at Columbia College and then continued his studies abroad—chiefly in law—in Leipzig and in Paris.
Career
When only fourteen years of age Dickinson served as a private in the Confederate cavalry. After the war his parents moved to Nashville, Tennessee, the home of his mother’s family.
To the end of his life he retained a fair command of the classics. He spoke German easily, and French and German books were conspicuous in his library.
After admission to the Tennessee bar, in 1874, he made his home in Nashville until 1899, when he moved to Chicago.
In the early years of practise he gained as a client the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, of which he ultimately became the general attorney (1897-99); passing from its service to that of the Illinois Central, as general solicitor (1899 - 1901) and general counsel (1901 - 09). He was not, however, a mere specialist in railroad law, but a general practitioner of notable all-round ability.
Public life called him briefly in 1903, when he served with distinction as one of counsel (making the closing argument) for the United States before the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal; and his continued interest, thereafter, in international problems was manifested in his participation in the organization, in 1906, of the American Society of International Law, which he served as a member of the Executive Council (1907 - 10) and as a vice-president (1910).
In 1909 he became secretary of war (March 1909-May 1911) in the cabinet of his old-time friend and professional associate, President Taft. This office was abandoned when his family suffered financial reverses.
Later, he served the government as a special assistant attorney-general in the prosecution of the United States Steel Corporation and in important labor cases (1922); and from 1915 to 1917 was receiver of the Rock Island Lines, and markedly successful. After this he gradually abandoned practise.
In 1927-28 he was president of the Izaak Walton League at a critical moment in its history.
He owned and gave much time to a plantation, and a stock farm of national repute.
Before his burial, in Nashville, his body lay in state in the capitol.
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Politics
Dickinson belonged by family tradition in the Democratic party, and long served it actively; but voted, apparently, more often as a Republican than a Democrat after the Bryan campaign of 1896.
Personality
Dickinson's most striking characteristics in the preparation and argument of cases were a strict attention to details and to truth. He scorned resort to a specious argument. Perhaps not unnaturally, therefore, although he was of commanding physique and of distinguished bearing and manners, he was not particularly notable as a jury lawyer.
He was devoted and ever loyal to friends; notably sociable, fond of converse and companionship, though not of conventional sports and amusements; devoted to reading, and widely informed. Rather than compete with friends he rejected what was at least a probability of appointment to the federal bench. High spirits, a keen humor, great stores of anecdotes, and varied knowledge made him a prized companion. Temperance characterized his personal habits; tolerance, his opinions—except of intolerance, as in some forms of social legislation.
Interests
A life-time devotion to fishing and hunting had made Dickinson appreciative of the need, and sympathetic to the conservation purposes, of that organization. His services to it illustrated as well as any task of his life his wisdom, force, and winning personality.
Connections
Dickinson married (on April 20, 1876) Martha Overton who bore him three sons, two of whom survived him.