Background
Cassidy, Lewis Cochran was born on October 29, 1898 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of H(ugh) Gilbert and Mary Dorothea (Fagan) Cassidy.
Cassidy, Lewis Cochran was born on October 29, 1898 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of H(ugh) Gilbert and Mary Dorothea (Fagan) Cassidy.
Bachelor of Arts, Mount Saint Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Maryland., 1919, Master of Arts, 1921. Graduate study, Harvard Law School, 1919-1920, Pugsley scholar, 1929-1930, Scientiae Juridicae Doctor, 1930, faculty research fellow, 1936-1937. Bachelor of Laws, Georgetown University, 1922, Master of Laws, 1923, Doctor of Philosophy cum laude, 1923.
Academie de Droit International de la Haye, 1931, 33.
Carnegie scholar, 1933. University of Leiden, 1933.
University of Michigan, 1934, 36.
Stepsons—Everett Grant, Junior, Charles Giles, Newton Nolan. Admitted to District of Columbia Bar, 1922, Pennsylvania bar, 1923, Massachusetts bar, 1937, Tennessee bar, 1938. To bar of Supreme Court of the United States, 1937.
Practicing in Philadelphia, 1923-1928 and since 1937.
Professor of law, Creighton University, 1928-1929, Georgetown University, 1930-1934. Dean, University of San Francisco Law School, 1934-1936.
Professor of law, Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, 1937-1939, National U. since 1939. Special assistant to attorney-general since 1939.
Appointed consul ad honorem by Republic of Panama, 1938.
Served as private infantry, United States Army, 1918. Member American Bar Association, American Society International Law, Sons of the American Revolution, Gamma Eta Gamma, Pi Sigma Alpha. Member Ancien Institut Historique et Heraldique de France.
Club: Harvard.
Married Clara L. McGrew, September 14, 1929. Married second, Mistress. Children: Lewis C. 4th, Isabelle, Truman Hugh, John Walsh.