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- Born:
- March 4, 1863, San Francisco, California, U.S.
- Died:
- April 20, 1943, Chicago, Illinois (aged 80)
- Subjects Of Study:
- jurisprudence
- American law
- evidence
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John Henry Wigmore
American legal scholar
John Henry Wigmore (born March 4, 1863, San Francisco, California, U.S.âdied April 20, 1943, Chicago, Illinois) was an American legal scholar and teacher whose 10-volume Treatise on the Anglo-American System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law (1904â05), usually called Wigmore on Evidence, is generally regarded as one of the worldâs great books on law.
A graduate of Harvard University, Wigmore taught at Keio University in Tokyo (1889â92) and at Northwestern University Law School in Evanston, Illinois (from 1893; dean, 1901â29). He also served as a colonel on the judge advocate generalâs staff during World War I and as an Illinois commissioner on uniform state laws (1908â24, 1933â43).
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