The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen L. Carter

Ĭurrently, Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where he has taught since 1982. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall from 1980 to 1981. Robinson III of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and, subsequently, for U.S. Legal career įollowing graduation from Yale, Carter served as a law clerk for Judge Spottswood W. In 1994, he delivered the commencement speech at Stanford University. Ĭarter has received eight honorary degrees, including Bates College, Colgate University, Hamilton College, and the University of Notre Dame.

At Yale, he won the prize for best oralist in the Thurmond Arnold Moot Court Competition and served as a note editor on the Yale Law Journal. At Stanford he served as managing editor for The Stanford Daily. in history from Stanford University in 1976. At Ithaca High School, he was the editor-in-chief of The Tattler, and pushed hard for student representation on the local school board. His great-grandmother was the suffragist and activist Addie Waites Hunton.Ĭarter graduated from Ithaca High School in 1972, and his essay 'The Best Black' is based in part on his experiences there. Carter's grandfather was a successful dentist in Harlem and his grandmother, Eunice Hunton Carter, was the first black woman to be a district attorney in New York state. An attorney turned administrator, his father was executive director of the Washington Urban League, and later a vice president at Cornell University. Carl Holman of the National Urban Coalition. His mother worked as an executive assistant for Julian Bond and M. He was raised in a family committed to public service. Stephen Lisle Carter (born October 26, 1954) is an American law professor at Yale University, legal- and social-policy writer, columnist, and best-selling novelist.Ĭarter was born in Washington, DC, the second of his parents' five children.

The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln by Stephen L. Carter