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Laurence Howard Eldredge

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Laurence Howard Ledredge
Born(1902-03-18)March 18, 1902
DiedJuly 17, 1982(1982-07-17) (aged 80)
NationalityAmerican
EducationLafayette College (BS)
University of Pennsylvania (LLB)
Occupations
  • Lawyer
  • educator
  • author
Spouse
Helen Biddle Gans
(m. 1926)
Children3
Parent(s)Irvin H. Eldredge
Mary Louise Benton

Laurence Howard Eldredge (March 18, 1902 – July 17, 1982) was an American lawyer, educator and author. His specialty was the law of torts.

Early life and education

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Eldredge was born in Cold Spring, Cape May County, New Jersey on March 18, 1902 to Irvin H. and Mary Louise (Benton) Eldridge. He received a Bachelor of Science from Lafayette College in 1924 and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Pennsylvania in 1927. In 1970, he completed a Doctor of Letters.

Career

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Eldredge was a reporter for the Public Ledger in Philadelphia from 1924-25 and then a writer of syndicated news articles. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1927 and worked as an associated with Montgomery and McCracken until 1938. He was a member of the firm Norris, Lex, Hart & Eldredge from 1944 to 1956.

Eldredge was a professor of law at Temple University from 1928-33 and an adjunct professor from 1947-52. He was Special Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania from 1948 to 1949.

During the 1970s Eldridge taught torts at Hastings College of Law in San Francisco as a member of that school's 65 Club consisting of professors who were past retirement age and unable to teach elsewhere.

Bibliography

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  • Eldredge on Modern Tort Problems, 1941
  • Pennsylvania Annotations to Restatement, Torts, Vols. I and II, 1938
  • Trials of a Philadelphia Lawyer, 1968
  • The Law of Defamation, 1978.
  • Revising reporter, Restatement of the Law of Torts, 1946-47.
  • Reporter of decisions Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1942-68.
  • Editor: Pennsylvania Bar Assn. Quar., 1938-42.

Personal life

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Eldredge married Helen Biddle Gans on September 30, 1926 and they had three daughters.

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