George Bethune Adams
George Bethune Adams was a United States lawyer and United States District Judge specializing in admiralty law. He served in private practice, litigated before the Supreme Court of the United States, and served as a judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Adams was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Though under the minimum age, he enlisted in a Pennsylvania regiment in the United States Army in 1861, and served for three months before returning to school. He reenlisted in 1863 when Robert E. Lees forces invaded Pennsylvania, and afterwards entered the Quartermasters Department of the Army, where he served until 1871. He then worked as a merchant for several years. He read law and became a lawyer in Philadelphia in 1878. He was thereafter in private practice in New York City from 1883 to 1901, specializing in admiralty law at the firm of Beebe amp Wilcox after the death of Judge Beebe in 1884, he became a name partner and the firm was renamed Wilcox, Adams amp Green. There, he litigated before the Supreme Court of the United States in admiralty cases such as The Kate. Adams was Secretary of the Union League Club of New York in 1894 and 1895.
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