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William Horace Hotchkiss (September 7, 1864 - ?) was an author of legal textbooks on bankruptcy law and Superintendent of Insurance for the State of New York. ==Biography== He was born in Whitehall, New York, on September 7, 1864. He attended schools in Albany and graduated from Hamilton College in 1886. Upon leaving college he read law with the Hon. John D. Teller of Auburn, New York, and acted as Clerk of the Surrogate's Court of Cayuga County, New York from 1887 to 1889. In 1888 he was admitted to the New York State Bar Association. In 1891 he went to Buffalo, New York and engaged there in the practice of the law. In 1895 he married Miss Katherine Tremain Bush, of Ithaca, New York They have two children. He was appointed Referee in Bankruptcy in 1898 and was reappointed in 1900 and served in that capacity up to the time of his appointment as Superintendent of Insurance. He is regarded as an authority on bankruptcy laws and has been president of the National Association of Referees in Bankruptcy since its formation. He is a lecturer on bankruptcy laws in law schools of Buffalo and New York, and in Cornell University. In 1907 Charles Evans Hughes appointed him a Commissioner for the Promotion of Uniformity of Legislation in the United States. With other Buffalo Republicans he made an inquiry regarding the operation of the primary election law of the State of New York and a report was drawn up which led to the introduction of a bill in the Legislature concerning the subject. In 1899 in association with Elihu Root and Paul D. Cravath of New York, Mr. Hotchkiss prepared the Primary Election Law of 1899, which is still in operation. For years he has taken a keen interest in automobiling and is President of the American Automobile Association, the New York State Automobile Association and of the Buffalo Automobile Club. He prepared the automobile law of the State. 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「William Horace Hotchkiss」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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