John Henry Wigmore - Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Wigmore accepted a post at Northwestern University and returned to the United States in 1893. He became the dean of Northwestern Law School from 1901 to 1929.

In the 1880s Wigmore was also a leader for election law reform issues such as the secret voting method, and fair ballot access laws. He was also a manager of the 1907-founded Comparative Law Bureau of the American Bar Association, whose Annual Bulletin was the first comparative law journal in the United States.

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