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DORMAN BRIDGMAN EATON (1823-1899)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 838 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRIDGMAN See also:EATON (1823-1899)  , See also:American lawyer, was See also:born at Hardwick, See also:Vermont, on the 27th of See also:June 1823 . He graduated at the university of Vermont in 1848 and at the Harvard See also:Law School in 185o, and in the latter See also:year was admitted to the See also:bar in New See also:York See also:city . There he became associated in practice with See also:William See also:Kent, the son of the See also:great See also:chancellor, an edition of whose Commentaries he assisted in editing . See also:Eaton See also:early became interested in municipal and See also:civil service reform . He was conspicuous in the fight against See also:Tweed and his followers, by one of whom he was assaulted; he required a See also:long See also:period of See also:rest, and went to See also:Europe, where he studied the workings of the civil service in various countries . From 1873 to 1875 he was a member of the first See also:United States Civil Service See also:Commission . In 1877, at the See also:request of See also:President See also:Hayes, he made a careful study of the See also:British civil service, and three years later published Civil Service in Great See also:Britain . He drafted the See also:Pendleton Civil Service See also:Act of 1883, and later became a member of the new commission established by it . He resigned in 1885, but was almost immediately reappointed by President See also:Cleveland; and served until 1886, editing the 3rd and 4th Reports of the commission . He was an organizer (1878) of the first society for the furtherance of civil service reform in New York, of the See also:National Civil Service Reform Association, and of the National See also:Conference of the Unitarian See also:Church (1865) . He died in New York city on the 23rd of See also:December 1899, leaving $roo,000 each to Harvard and See also:Columbia See also:universities for the establishments of professorships in See also:government . He was a legal writer and editor, and a frequent contributor to the leading reviews .

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works mentioned he published Should See also:Judges be Elected ? (1873), The See also:Independent See also:Movement in New York (188o), See also:Term and See also:Tenure of See also:Office (1882), The Spoils See also:System and Civil Service Reform (1882), Problems of See also:Police Legislation (1895) and The Government of Municipalities (1899) . See the privately printed memorial See also:volume, Dorman B . Eaton, 1823—1899 (New York, 1900) .

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