Background
Pfeiffer, Timothy Newell was born on November 3, 1886 in Camden, New Jersey, United States. Son of George and Adaline (Adams) Pfeiffer.
Pfeiffer, Timothy Newell was born on November 3, 1886 in Camden, New Jersey, United States. Son of George and Adaline (Adams) Pfeiffer.
Graduate William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1904. Bachelor of Arts, Princeton, 1908. Bachelor of Laws, Harvard, 1912.
Admitted to New York bar, 1912, practicing at New York City. Deputy assistant district attorney New York County, 1913-1915. Counsel American Social Hygiene Association, 1915-1917, former treasurer.
Special deputy attorney general New York, in prosecutions under Anti-Trust Acting, 1921-1922, in Nassau County Investigations, 1923.
Member Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. Chief counsel New York State Temporary Commission Courts, 1956-1957.
Vice chairman New York State Temporary Commision on Revision Penal Law, 1961-1971. Trustee Teachers College Columbia University, Woodrow Wilson Foundation (vice president).
Served as captain Sanitary corpus, United States army. Member American Bar Association, American Law Institute (member of council, advisory drafting code of criminal procedure), New York State, New York City (vice president) bar associations, Legal Aid Society New York (president, 1950-1955, director), National Health Council (treasurer, 1937-1948), National Probation and Parole Association (president, 1937-1941). Clubs: Century, University.
Married Eleanor Knox Wheeler, June 10, 1914. Children: Egbert Wheeler, Timothy Adams, Katharine Bradford, Eleanor Knox.