Charles Cotesworth Beaman Sr. (May 7, 1840 – December 15, 1900) was an American lawyer who wrote The National and Private Alabama Claims and their Final and Amicable Settlement (1871).

[1] In December 1870 he served as the first-ever Solicitor General of the United States, a position created to compile the individual claims of losses caused by Confederate raider ships during the United States Civil War.

[2] Charles Cotesworth Beaman was born in Houlton, Maine on May 7, 1840.

[4] He began practicing law in New York City in 1867.

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