Background
De Jongh, John P. was born on February 27, 1927 in Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands.
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John P. De Jongh
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Harvard College (Bachelor of Arts, 1949). Harvard Law School (Juris Doctor, 1954).
Career
Worked at Birch, de Jongh, Hindels & Hall (Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas, VI) specializing in General Practice, Banking, Commercial Transactions, Real Estate Law, Corporate Law, Commercial Litigation. Admitted to the bar, 1955, New New York 1959, Virgin Islands.
Assistant Counsel, Office of General Counsel, Department of Navy, New York, 1954.
Assistant Attorney General, 1959 and Acting Attorney General, 1959, Virgin Islands. Executive Assistant and Counsel to Governor of the Virgin Islands, 1960.
Chief, Division of Insular Affairs, Office of Territories, United States. Department of the Interior, 1963.
Commissioner: Virgin Islands Law Revision Commission.
Commission on Uniform State Laws. Member: Virgin Islands and Federal Bar Associations. Harvard Law School Association.
Birch, de Jongh, Hindels & Hall was founded in 1956 by Everett B. Birch and John M. Maduro.
Later, John P. de Jongh, Alexander A. Farrelly, James H. Hindels and Samuel H. Hall, Junior became partners in the firm. John M. Maduro left in 1964 to become President of the Virgin Islands Legislature.
And Alexander A. Farrelly left in 1987 to become Governor of the Virgin Islands. The firm offers a general commercial, complex litigation practice, particularly in the fields of commercial law, banking, real estate, corporate law with concentration in Foreign Sales Corporations and probate.
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Member: Virgin Islands and Federal Bar Associations. Harvard Law School Association.
