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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—PennsylvaniaBECK, James Montgomery
(1861—1936)
BECK, James Montgomery, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 9, 1861; attended the public schools and was graduated from Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pa., in 1880; employed as clerk for a railway company in 1880 and studied law at night; was admitted to the bar in 1884 and commenced practice in Philadelphia; admitted to the bar of New York City in 1903, and to the bar of England in 1922; served as assistant United States attorney for the eastern district of Pennsylvania 1888-1892 and as United States attorney 1896-1900; appointed by President William McKinley as assistant to the Attorney General of the United States in 1900 and served until his resignation in 1903; continued the practice of law in Philadelphia, New York City, and Washington from 1903 to 1921; was elected a bencher of Gray’s Inn in 1914, being the first foreigner in 600 years to receive that distinction; also received decorations from France and Belgium; author of several books and articles on the First World War and on the Constitution of the United States; appointed by President Warren G. Harding as Solicitor General of the United States in 1921 and served until his resignation in 1925; resumed the practice of law; elected as a Republican to the Seventieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James M. Hazlett; reelected to the Seventy-first, Seventy-second, and Seventy-third Congresses and served from November 8, 1927, until his resignation on September 30, 1934; resumed the practice of law and was also engaged as an author; died in Washington, D.C., April 12, 1936; interment in Rock Creek Cemetery.
Bibliography
Keller, Morton. In Defense of Yesterday; James M. Beck and the Politics of Conservatism, 1861-1936
. New York: Coward-McCann, 1958.
Beck, James M. L’Affaire Cavell (The case of Edith Cavell)
. Paris: Fontemoing et cie, 1918.
———. America and the allies
. [London: Jordan-Gaskell ltd., 1916].
———. Il caso del Belgio
. Parigi, Nuova York [etc.]: T. Nelson & sons, [1915].
———. The city of Philadelphia
. Philadelphia: Press of Allen, Lane & Scott, 1893.
———. The Constitution of the United States.
Revised and with additional material by James Truslow Adams. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1941.
———. Deutschland und Belgien
. London: Harrison and sons, 1915.
———. The double alliance versus the triple entente
. French. London, New York [etc.]: Oxford University press: H. Milford, [1914]. Reprint, Lausanne: Payot & cie, [1915].
———. The equity power of United States courts in labor controversies
. Washington: Government Printing Office., 1932.
———. The Evidence in the Case.
Introduction by Joseph H. Choate. 1914. Reprint, London and New York: G. P. Putnams’s sons, 1916.
———. Germany’s Case Tried In Court.
London: George Newnes, Limited, 1914.
———. ”Ground arms!” An oration delivered at the celebration of the one hundred and seventeenth anniversary of the Declaration of independence, at the invitation of the councils of the city of Philadelphia, in Independence square, July 4th, 1893
. Philadelphia: Press of Allen, Lane & Scott, 1893.
———. La guerre et l’humanité
. New York [etc.]: G. P. Putnam’s sons; [etc., etc.], 1917.
———. Jefferson and the liberty of the press
. [N.p.], 1931.
———. The Lewis Publishing Company, a body corporate in law, complainant-appellant, against Edward M. Morgan, postmaster in and for the city of New York, defendant appellee
. New York: C. G. Burgoyne, [1912].
———. The memory of McKinley
. [N.p., 1908].
———. The menace of bureaucracy; an address delivered at a dinner given by the member of the Chicago Board of trade at the Hotel Stevens, Chicago, Novenber 10, 1931
. [N.p., 1931?]
———. The Necessity of a City Hall Plaza.
Philadelphia: Press of Allen, Lane and Scott, 1896.
———. The relative influence of the lawyer in modern life; an address delivered at Earl hall, Columbia university, at the invitation of the trustees and faculties of the University, to the graduates and alumni of the Law school, on May 25, 1908
. [N.p., 1908?]
———. The Passing of the New Freedom.
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1920.
———. Le procès de Miss Cavell; quelques remarques sur les droits des non-combattants
. Lausanne: Payot & cie, 1916.
———. The Reckoning.
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1918.
———. The United States and war
. New York: The Pennsylvania society, [1916].
———. The War and Humanity.
Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. 3rd ed. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1917.
———. Washington and the world war
. [Morristown?: N.p., 1918].
———. Our Wonderland of Bureaucracy: A Study of the Growth of Bureaucracy in the Federal Government, and its Destructive Effect on the Constitution.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932.
———. The youthful Franklin; an address delivered at the unveiling of a statue to Benjamin Franklin at the University of Pennsylvania, on June 16, 1914
. Philadelphia: Printed at the shop of Franklin printing company, [1914].
Keller, Morton. In Defense of Yesterday; James M. Beck and the Politics of Conservatism, 1861-1936.
New York: Coward-McCann, 1958.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on elections no. 2. James M. Beck election case, first district of Pennsylvania
. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1928.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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