U. M. Rose

U. M. Rose
From Addresses of U.M. Rose : with a brief memoir, 1914
Uriah M. Rose, delegate to the Hague Peace Conference of 1907

Uriah Milton Rose (March 5, 1834 – August 12, 1913) was an American lawyer [1]: 181  and Confederate sympathizer.[1]: 176  "Approachable, affable, and kind,"[2] graceful and courteous,[3]: 18  he was called "the most scholarly lawyer in America"[4]: 676  and "one of the leading legal lights of the nation",[5] "a towering figure in the...life of Little Rock".[2] He was a founder of the American Bar Association, of which he was twice president, 1891–92 and 1901-02.[6]

Another Arkansas judge, J. T. Coston, described him thus:

Arkansas is the home of the late U. M. Rose, a scholar and statesman. Judge Rose was one of the great lawyers not only of Arkansas but of the United States. Cultured, refined and modest as a woman, with a titanic intellect, he was a general favorite wherever he was known. Judge Dillon, after being thrown with him on numerous occasions at long intervals, pronounced Judge Rose the most cultured man he had ever known. He loved his profession, and I heard him state only a year or two before he died, while attending the Arkansas Bar Association, that during his more than half a century experience in the practice of law he had never had a serious misunderstanding with a brother lawyer.[7]

President Theodore Roosevelt called him "the brainiest man I have ever met".[8]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Bird2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b "A Tribute to Uriah M. Rose---The Lawyer". Arkansas Democrat. August 13, 1913. p. 6. Archived from the original on April 30, 2019. Retrieved April 20, 2019.
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  4. ^ "America's Delegation to the Second Hague Conference". American Monthly Review of Reviews. Vol. 35, no. 6. June 1907. pp. 673–679.
  5. ^ "Judge Rose's Record". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. June 12, 1907. p. 4. Archived from the original on April 30, 2019. Retrieved April 20, 2019.
  6. ^ "A Peace Conference Delegate". Lincoln Star. June 27, 1907. p. 10. Archived from the original on April 23, 2019. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
  7. ^ Coston, J. T. (August 27, 1915). "Arkansas (conclusion)". The Osceola Times (Osceola, Arkansas). p. 3. Archived from the original on April 30, 2019. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
  8. ^ "Fall from Chair Proves Fatal to Judge U. M. Rose (conclusion)". Arkansas Democrat. August 12, 1913. p. 5. Archived from the original on April 30, 2019. Retrieved April 20, 2019.