Background
Perkins, Thomas Nelson was born in 1870 in Milton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Edward C. and Jane S. (Watson) Perkins.
Perkins, Thomas Nelson was born in 1870 in Milton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Edward C. and Jane S. (Watson) Perkins.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1891, Bachelor of Laws, 1894, Doctor of Laws, 1926. Doctor of Laws, Dartmouth, 1930. Admitted to bar, 1893.
In practice at Boston, since 1894. Member Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins. Director and member Executive Committee B.&M. Railroad
Director Merrimac Chemical Company, Sullivan Machinery Company (Chairman of the Board and member Executive Committee), General Foods Corporation, American Telephone & Telegraph Company, Stone & Webster, Incorporated.
(exes. committee), Southern Pacific Company, First National Bank of Boston (Executive Committee), Elliott Investment Company (Santa Barbara). Fiduciary Associates (Boston), New England Public Service Corporation (Executive Committee), Fiduciary Tr.
Company, General Printing Ink Corporation, Loew’s, Incorporated., Guarantee Company of Northern America, Flintkote Company. Trustee Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates.
Chairman board Commercial Radio International Committee During World War was member Priorities Committee, chief counsel War Industries Board.
Member American Commission to Inter-Allied War Conference (Paris). Assistant to secretary of war and assistant director of munitions. United States citizen member Reparation Commission (Paris), 1924-1926, and member Committee of Experts, 1929 (alternate to chairman).
President Arbitral Tribunal of Interpretation, The Hague, 1926-1930.
Fellow, President and Member American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Married Louisa C. Adams, June 6, 1900.