Charles Warren (author)

Charles Warren (March 9, 1868 – August 16, 1954)[1][2][3] was an American lawyer and legal scholar who won a Pulitzer Prize for his book The Supreme Court in United States History (1922).

[3] Warren began practicing law in Boston in Moorfield Storey's firm, but left after less than a year to accept a job as the private secretary to Massachusetts governor William Eustis Russell.

Warren was an active member of the Young Men's Democratic Club, but lost both his attempts to gain elective office (as state senator in 1894 and 1895).

[7] On May 31, 1894, Warren founded the Immigration Restriction League with his fellow Harvard graduates Prescott F. Hall and Robert DeCourcy Ward.

His most famous case defended James Michael Curley, who was convicted for conspiracy to defraud the United States for taking the civil service examination for a constituent.

In 1905, Warren became chair of the Massachusetts State Civil Service Commission, where he served until 1911, when a candidate backed by Martin Lomasney, one of the powerful machine politicians against which the patrician progressive worked, won.

After the war (and Wilson's death), Warren remained in Washington, D.C., and received several appointments as special master from the Supreme Court for disputes involving state boundaries and water rights.

[12] Justice Louis Brandeis cited the work (revised in 1935) in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins (1938), which cut back on forum-shopping by wealthy litigants using the old case of Swift v. Tyson (1842).