Frederick Emmons Chapin (December 7, 1860 – March 20, 1923) was an American attorney who, in the 1890s, was one of the first law clerks to the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.
[1] He is related to John Hart, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
[1] He was educated in the public schools at Livingston County, New York.
Senator Joseph Roswell Hawley, law clerk to Justice Howell Edmunds Jackson, and law clerk to Justice Henry Billings Brown of the Supreme Court of the United States.
[11] He then entered private practice in Washington, D.C..[12][13] In 1903, he worked as legal adviser to the Embassy of Japan.