James Coolidge Carter was a New York City lawyer, a partner in the firm that eventually became Carter Ledyard amp Milburn , which he helped found in 1854.
Carter was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, on October 14, 1827, the youngest child of a large and needy family. He entered Harvard College in 1846 and graduated in 1850. He rowed stroke oar in his class boat and was class orator at commencement. Joseph H. Choate said of him
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