Background
Dodd, Walter Fairleigh was born on April 7, 1880 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, United States. Son of J. M. and Laura A. (Imbler) Dodd.
Dodd, Walter Fairleigh was born on April 7, 1880 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, United States. Son of J. M. and Laura A. (Imbler) Dodd.
Bachelor of Arts, Florida State College, 1898. Bachelor of Science, John B. Stetson University, 1901. Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1905.
; children—Walter H., Laura Alice. In charge section foreign law Library of Congress, 1904-1907. Held research appointment Johns Hopkins, 1908-1910.
Associate in political science University of Illinois, 1910-1911, assistant professor 1911-1914, associate professor, 1914-1915.
Associate professor political science University of Chicago, 1915-1917. Secretary Illinois Legislative Reference Bureau, Springfield, 1917-1918.
Major, Quartermaster Corps., United States Army, 1918-1919. In charge collection data for Illinois Constitutional Convention, 1919-1920.
Practiced law Chicago, 1920-1960.
Also professor of law, Yale, 1927-1930, and research associate with rank of professor, 1930-1933.
Author: Modern Constitutions (2 vols.), 1909. Government of the District of Columbia, 1909. Revision and Amendment of State Constitutions, 1910.
State Government, 1922, 28. Government in Illinois (with Sue Hutchison Dodd), 1923. Appellate Jurisdiction and Parctice in Illinois (with Palmer D. Edmunds), 1929.
Cases and Authorities on Constitutional Law, 1933-1954, supplement to 1956. Administration of Workmen’s Compensation, 1936. Annotations of Illinois Civil Practice Act, 1936.
Member American Political Science Association (president 1946), American, Illinois, Chicago bar associations, American Law Institute, American Judicature Society, Association Bar City of New New York Clubs: Union League (Chicago).
Married Sue Hutchinson, 1919 (deceased. Children: Walter H., Laura Alice.