J. Harry Covington

James Harry Covington II was an American jurist and politician. He represented the Marylands 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1909 to 1914, and served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia from 1914 to 1918. Covington is best remembered as the founder of the Washington, DC law firm Covington amp Burling, which as of 2012 maintained offices in five countries and employed over 800 attorneys.

J. Harry Covington was born May 3, 1870 in Easton, Maryland. He attended the Maryland Military Academy at Oxford. He entered the law department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1891, attending at the same time special lectures in history, literature, and economics, and graduated in 1894.

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