William Dameron Guthrie
William Dameron Guthrie (1859–1935) was an American lawyer and educator. He was born February 3, 1859, in San Francisco and studied in Paris, England, and at Columbia Law School (1879–80). In his legal work, he argued several Supreme Court cases, including issues on income tax, California irrigation, Illinois inheritance tax, oleomargarine, and Kansas City stockyards rates.
Guthrie taught at Yale as the William L. Storrs lecturer (1907–08) and was the Ruggles Professor of Constitutional Law at Columbia University from 1909 to 1922. He published works on the Constitution, such as Lectures on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution (1898), Introduction to American Constitutional Law (1913), and Magna Carta and Other Addresses (1916).
He served as president of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York from 1925 to 1927 and was a lawyer for the Rockefeller family.
Personal life: He married Ella E. Fuller on May 12, 1889. A Republican, Guthrie was elected the first mayor of Lattingtown, New York in 1931 and was reelected in 1934. He died December 8, 1935, at his home in Lattingtown and was buried in Locust Valley Cemetery, Locust Valley, New York.
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