Well-known American lawyers who did not
go to law school or who did not finish
Patrick Henry (1736-1799) governor of Virginia
John Jay (1745-1829) first chief justice of the Supreme
Court
John Marshall (1755-1835) chief justice of the Supreme
Court
Daniel Webster (1782-1852) secretary of State
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) president, did not go
Stephen A. Douglas (1813-1861) representative, senator
from Illinois
Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) defense attorney in Scopes
trial of 1925, dropped out
Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870-1938) justice of the Supreme
Court
Strom Thurmond (1902- ) US senator, governor of South
Carolina
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson.