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John Elbridge Hudson (August 3, 1839 - October 1, 1900) was an U.S. lawyer, telephone businessman, and president of AT&T from 1889 to 1900. Hudson was born in Lynn, Massachusetts to John and Elizabeth C. (''nee'' Hilliard) Hudson. He made Bachelor of Arts at Harvard College in 1862 as valedictorian. He made Bachelor of Laws in 1865 and was admitted to the bar the following year. He then joined the Boston law firm Chandler, Shattuck & Thayer, where he became partner in 1870. In 1878 the firm dissolved, and he became counsel for the American Bell Telephone Company in 1880, later known as AT&T. He became solicitor, vice president on November 29, 1886, and president on April 1, 1889. Hudson married Eunice Healey, daughter of Wells and Elizabeth (''nee'' Pickering) Healey, from Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, on August 23, 1871. He was a fellow: * the American Academy of Arts and Sciences * the corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology * the British Association for the Advancement of Science * the New England Historic Genealogical Society (where he became vice-president) * the Colonial Society of Massachusetts * the Bostonian Society * the Lynn Historical Society * the American Institute of Electrical Engineers * the Boston Bar Association * the Virginia Historical Society * the American Antiquarian Society (since April 1894) Hudson died in Beverly, Massachusetts. == Further reading == * ''Memoir of John Elbridge Hudson'' by Francis Blake (1900) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Elbridge Hudson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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