Background
Bullitt, William Marshall was born on March 4, 1873 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Son of Thomas Walker and Annie P. (Logan) Bullitt.
Bullitt, William Marshall was born on March 4, 1873 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Son of Thomas Walker and Annie P. (Logan) Bullitt.
Bachelor of Science, Princeton, 1894. Bachelor of Laws, University Louisville, 1895.
May 31, 1913; children—Thomas Walker, Nora Iasigi (Mistress Eugene W. Leake, Junior), Barbara (Mistress Lowry Watkins). Practiced at Louisville, 1894-1857. Senior member Bullitt, Dawson & Tarrant.
Solicitor-general, United States, 1912-1913. Republican nominee for United States Senate, 1914. Director general counsel, Citizens Fidelity Bank and Trust Company, 1907-1957.
Trustee American Surety County, New York. Trustee, member Executive Committee, insurance and agency committee Mutual Life Insurance Company New York Trustee Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Delaware at large Republican National Convention, Chicago, 1908 (member commission on resolutions), and 1916.
Chairman Board of Public Safety of Louisville, 1907-1909. Major and deputy commissioner for France of America Red Cross, 1918-1919. Special counsel for United States Shipping Board and United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, 1921-1922.
Special assistant to attorney general of the United States in Atlantic Corporation litigation, 1924-1925. Argued over 50 cases in Supreme Court of United States, including constitutionality of anti-removal statutes, the “War time” Prohibition Act, 18th Amendment, Frazier-Lemke Act, Federal Farm Loan Act, income taxation of Federal judicial salaries, Federal taxation of State bonds and municipal securities, Federal estate taxation of proceeds of life insurance policies, constitutionality of state statutes of various states, Rehabilitation Act of California, etc. Member visiting commission on mathematics Harvard.
Fellow Pierpont Morgan Library. Member S.A.R., Society Colonial Wars, Association Bar City New York, American, Kentucky, Louisvill bar associations, American Mathematics Society, Mathematics Association America, Amateur Astronomical Association, American Law Institute, New York State Chamber of C. Clubs: Union, Down Town Association, National Republican (New York City).
Married Nora Iasigi. Children: Thomas Walker, Nora Iasigi (Mistress Eugene W. Leake, Junior.