ANNUAL DINNER

The Annual Dinner was held Thursday evening, August 29, 1912, at the Plankinton House, Milwaukee, Wis.

W. U. Hensel, of Pennsylvania, presided.

The speakers were as follows:

J. L. ARCHAMBAULT, K. C., Bâtonnier of the Montreal Bar, of

Montreal.

MR. JUSTICE CARTER, of Illinois.

ALBERT L. LEGRAND, of Paris, France.

JOHN ALLEN, of Mississippi.

Three hundred and eleven members and guests were present.

LIST OF PRESIDENTS

1. 1878-79-*JAMES O. BROADHEAD1.....St. Louis, Missouri. 2.

1879-80-*BENJAMIN H. BRISTOW. .....New York, New York.

3. 1880-81-*EDWARD J. PHELPS.

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...Burlington, Vermont.
...New York, New York.

1882-83-*ALEXANDER R. LAWTON. ....Savannah, Georgia.
1883-84-*CORTLANDT PARKER
.Newark, New Jersey.

7. 1884-85-*JOHN W. STEVENSON.. ...Covington, Kentucky.
1885-86-*WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER.... New York, New York.
1886-87-*THOMAS J. SEMMES...... ...New Orleans, Louisiana.
1887-88-*GEORGE G. WRICHT...
1888-89- DAVID DUDLEY FIELD.
1889-90-*HENRY HITCHCOCK
1890-91-SIMEON E. BALDWIN.

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1893-94-*THOMAS M. COOLEY'.

..Des Moines, Iowa.

New York, New York. ...St. Louis, Missouri.

.. New Haven, Connecticut. .New York, New York.

1892-93-*JOHN RANDOLPH TUCKER...Lexington, Virginia.

17. 1894-95-*JAMES C. CARTER..

Ann Arbor, Michigan. ...New York, New York. .Boston, Massachusetts.

19. 1896-97-*JAMES M. WOOLWORTH.....Omaha, Nebraska.

1897-98-*WILLIAM WIRT HOWE. ...... New Orleans, Louisiana.

...New York, New York.

1899-1900-*CHARLES F. MANDERSON.. Omaha, Nebraska.

...New York, New York.
...Little Rock, Arkansas.
..Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
..St. Louis, Missouri.

27. 1904-1905-HENRY ST. GEO. TUCKER.. Lexington, Virginia.

1908-1909-FREDERICK W. LEHMANN... St. Louis, Missouri.

1909-1910-CHARLES F. LIBBY...

33. 1910-1911-EDGAR H. FARRAR.

Portland, Maine.

... New Orleans, Louisiana.
. Chicago, Illinois.
St. Paul, Minnesota.

1 At the Conference for organizing the Association in 1878, John H. B. Latrobe, of Maryland, was elected Temporary Chairman, and when the organization was completed, Benjamin H. Bristow, of Kentucky, was elected President of the Conference.

In consequence of the death of Clarkson N. Potter. Francis Kernan, of New York, presided and prepared and delivered the President's Address In 1882. In consequence of the Illness of Thomas M. Cooley, Samuel F. Hunt, of Ohlo, presided and read the President's Address prepared by Judge Cooley in 1894.

In consequence of the absence of Joseph H. Choate, as Ambassador to Great Britain, Charles F. Manderson, of Nebraska, presided and prepared and delivered the President's Address in 1899.

LIST OF SECRETARIES.

1. 1878-93-*EDWARD OTIS HINKLEY1.... Baltimore, Maryland. 2. 1893-1909-JOHN HINKLEY'...

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Baltimore, Maryland.
GEORGE WHITELOCK ..... Baltimore, Maryland.

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LIST OF TREASURERS.

1878-1902-FRANCIS RAWLE...... .. Philadelphia, Penna.

2. 1902- FREDERICK E. WADHAMS...Albany, New York.

• Deceased.

In 1878, Francis Rawle, of Pennsylvania, and Isaac Grant Thompson, of New York, acted as temporary Secretaries and as Secretaries of the Conference. In 1886, Edward Otls Hinkley being absent, Walter George Smith, of Pennsylvania, acted as Secretary pro tempore.

'In 1898, John Hinkley being absent, George P. Wanty, of Michigan, acted as Secretary pro tempore.