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Chester T. Lane (Chester Tevis Lane) was born on 7 June, 1905 in London, UK, is a 20th-century American attorney and SEC official. Discover Chester T. Lane's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 54 years old?

Popular As Chester Tevis Lane
Occupation Lawyer, government counsel, professor
Age 54 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 7 June, 1905
Birthday 7 June
Birthplace London, UK
Date of death 1959
Died Place New York City, US
Nationality American

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Who Is Chester T. Lane's Wife?

His wife is Persis McClennen

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Children 4

Chester T. Lane Net Worth

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1905

Chester T. Lane (1905–1959) was counsel to the newly formed Security and Exchange Commission, a Lend-Lease administrator, and later, as a partner at Beer, Richards, Lane, Haller & Buttenwieser, served as defense counsel to Alger Hiss during appeal.

Chester Tevis Lane was born on June 7, 1905, in London, United Kingdom, to American parents.

He had two siblings, a brother and sister.

1926

In 1926, he graduated from Harvard University.

1927

In 1927, Lane married Persis McClennen; they had four children.

Lane was a member of the American Bar Association and of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

1930

In 1930, he graduated from Harvard Law School, where he also taught and tutored in classics.

1931

In 1931, he passed the New York bar.

In 1931, Lane went to work at the law firm Murray, Aldrich & Webb, after which that firm merged into Milbank LLP, Tweed, Hope & Webb.

1935

In 1935, Lane joined the staff of the newly formed Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) as counsel; in January 1937, he became assistant general counsel.

1938

In 1938, he became SEC general counsel.

1942

During World War II, Lane served as special assistant to the United States Attorney General: associate chief of the Special War Policies Unit at the Justice Department (1942), chairman of Justice's Civilian Legal Personnel Commission (1942), head of post-war Lend-Lease Administration and senior consultant to the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.

1947

In 1947, Lane returned to private practice by helping form Beer, Richards, Lane, Haller & Buttenwieser.

1949

In 1949, he began lecturing at the New York University Law School until his death in 1959.

Harold Rosenwald (one of the first lawyers to join the Alger Hiss defense team) was a member of the firm.

Lane cited expert Dr. Daniel P. Norman of Skinner & Sherman (Boston) (who found that typewriter had been "altered" by soldering new typeface "sloppily" some time before the Hiss defense team discovered the typewriter on April 16, 1949), so that Lane concluded that testimony by Whittaker Chambers regarding the "Baltimore Documents" was a "fabrication."

1950

In 1950, Lane became defense counsel to Alger Hiss in his appeal on conviction for two counts of perjury in January 1950.

The appeal started in 1950 as United States vs. Alger Hiss, 185 F. 2d 822 with appellant counsel listed as Robert M. Benjamin, Harold Rosenwald, Chester T. Lane, and Kenneth Simon.

1952

In January 1952, Lane's defense begin; it focused on attacking the Woodstock N230099 typewriter as "planted."

In April 1952, The New York Times covered Lane's efforts, reporting how Lane called testimony by Chambers "false," claimed that "his fraudulent plot now stands exposed," and stated he had new evidence that showed untrue that Hiss' wife, Priscilla Hiss, had typed up State Department documents on the Woodstock typewriter.

Lane speculated, "Some signs point to the conclusion that, though his personal interest may have been to protect himself in the libel suit [$75.000 libel action brought by Hiss against Mr. Chambers], the availability of the means for such self-preservation may have been part of a much larger scheme involving other people and for larger objectives than the mere framing of Alger Hiss."

1953

The appeal continued as United States of America, Appellee, v. Alger Hiss, Appellant, 201 F.2d 372 (2d Cir. 1953), with counsel listed as Chester T. Lane, Robert M. Benjamin and Helen L. Buttenwieser.

Lane's efforts proved unsuccessful.

1959

He worked there through 1959 and specialized in Securities Regulation, Administrative Law, Trademarks, and Unfair Competition.

Chester T. Lane died age 53 on March 13, 1959, in New York City of a heart attack.