American Decades
Deaths
Augustus O. Bacon, 74, chairman of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee. A onetime member of the Confederate army, a lawyer, and the first senator to be elected under the changes brought about by the adoption of the Seventeenth Amendment, Bacon was an outspoken opponent of intervention in Mexico and a major influence in the formulation of the nation's foreign policy, 14 February 1914.
Lloyd Bowers, 50, former solicitor general under President Taft who achieved enormous success in the cases he handled before the Supreme Court, including those that resulted in the dissolution of the Standard Oil and American Tobacco trusts, 9 September 1910.
David J. Brewer, 72, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court between 1890 and 1910, a position to which he had been appointed by President Benjamin Harrison after six years of service as a judge on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, 28 March 1910.
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1910's Law and Justice
