Background
HARTSHORNE, Richard was born on February 29, 1888 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. Son of William S. and Margaret Bentley (Harrison) Hartshorne.
State Educational Survey Commission
HARTSHORNE, Richard was born on February 29, 1888 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. Son of William S. and Margaret Bentley (Harrison) Hartshorne.
Graduate, Newark Academy, 1905. Bachelor of Literature, Princeton University, 1909. Bachelor of Laws, Columbia, 1912.
Doctor of Laws, Upsala College, 1952. Doctor of Laws, Lincoln University, 1952.
Member Riker & Riker, Edward W. & Runyon Colie, Stewart & Hartshorne. Special assistant United States attorney New Jersey, 1925. Judge County Court, Newark, 1931-1951, United States District Court New Jersey district, from 1951.
Professor constitutional law and insurance law New Jersey Law School. President Interstate Commission on Crime, 1935-1943. Chairman New Jersey Commission on Interstate Cooperation.
Member board managers Council State Governments. Chairman New Jersey Commission for State Labor Department Survey. Member joint conference com in charge Federal-State Conference on Law Enforcement Problems of National Defense.
Del 8th Conference International pour l'Unification du Droit Penal, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1935.
President Jersey Boy's State. Lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, World War I. Lieutenant colonel New Jersey State Guard.
Member American Bar Association (chairman section judicial administration), New Jersey Bar Association, Essex County Bar Association, American Legion (chairman national law and order committee from 1937, Commander New Jersey Department, 1930), Sons of the American Revolution (national chancellor-general 1929-1931, president New Jersey Society 1928), Essex Club, East Orange Tennis Club, Masons.
Married Ellen Sahlin, March 15, 1919. Children: Richard, Nancy, John Fritz, Penelope.