LITCHFIELD LAW SCHOOL

LITCHFIELD LAW SCHOOL was established in 1784 in Litchfield, Conn., by Tapping Reeve, who was its only teacher until 1798. In that year he was succeeded by James Gould, who developed an institution that in the early years of the nineteenth century gave legal training to hundreds of young men from almost every state in the Union and numbered among its graduates some of the most prominent men in the public life of the next generation, including Henry Clay. Before it closed its doors in 1833, the Litchfield school had sent out more than a thousand graduates.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

McKenna, Marian C. Tapping Reeve and the Litchfield Law School. New York: Oceana, 1986.

Francis R. Aumann/A. R.

See also Law Schools.