Union Law School

Not to be confused with the Union College of Law, the original name of the Northwestern University School of Law.

Union Law School was a private school of law located in Easton, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania.

## History

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Union Law School was founded in 1846 by Washington McCartney, and was incorporated by the Pennsylvania legislature eight years later, in 1854.[1]

Two of its most notable alumni were United States Representative Philip Johnson and Wisconsin state senator Robert L. D. Potter. Potter graduated in the spring of 1857.[citation needed]

In 2000, a historian wrote that the school proved incapable of sustaining itself after McCartney's death, writing that it was "a one-man operation that died with him."[2]

## References

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1. ^ "McCartney, Hon. Washington, LL.D." in The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Pennsylvania of the Nineteenth Century Philadelphia: Galaxy Publishing Company, 1874; p. 459
2. ^ Knupfer, Peter B. Union As It Is: Constitutional Unionism and Sectional Compromise, 1787-1861 Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000; chapter 2, endnote 54

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