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George Wickersham  

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  • George Woodward Wickersham, lawyer, Republican Party leader, attorney general of the United States, and chairman of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the son of businessman Samuel Morris Wickersham and Elizabeth Cox. [Source: The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encylopedia; Wickersham, George]

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