Background
Hunt, Robert Sherwood was born on July 14, 1917 in Postville, Iowa, United States. Son of Gerald Winslow and Margaret (Sherwood) Hunt.
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From dust jacket notes: "This book fills a long-felt need. United States legal history, in any meaningful sense, has been all but ignored by lawyer and historian alike. Here is a pioneering work that lifts legal history from antiquarianism to significance, as it tells how agencies of law - the legislature, the courts, the constitution, the executive, and the bar - attempted to deal with problems that dogged the railroad's tracks in a raw, new state. In short, it is a case study of the reaction of law to economics in the laboratory of nineteenth-century Wisconsin...."
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Hunt, Robert Sherwood was born on July 14, 1917 in Postville, Iowa, United States. Son of Gerald Winslow and Margaret (Sherwood) Hunt.
Bachelor of Arts, Oberlin College, 1939; A.M., Harvard University, 1940; Bachelor of Laws, Yale University, 1947; Scientiae Juridicae Doctor (Rockefeller fellow), University of Wisconsin, 1952.
From instructor to assistant professor, College Law, U. Iowa, 1947-1949; associate firm, Schiff Hardin and Waite, Chicago, 1950-1957; partner, Schiff Hardin and Waite, 1957-1966; professor, School Law, U. Washington, Seattle, since 1966; associate dean, School Law, U. Washington, 1970-1975. Director Security State Bank, Guttenberg, Iowa, 1964-1971.
(From dust jacket notes: "This book fills a long-felt need...)
Board directors Mary McDowell Settlement House, Chicago, 1962-1966. Served to lieutenant Commander United States Naval Reserve, 1940-1946, PTO. Member American Veterans Committee (national vice chairman 1955-1956), American Bar Association Clubs: Corbey Court (New Haven). Cliff Dwellers (Chicago).
Married Elaine Marie Hess, August 18, 1948 (divorced).