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The Legal 100:
A Ranking of the Individuals Who Have Most Influenced the Law


Related pages:
- Religious Affiliation of U.S. Supreme Court Justices
The list below is from the book The Legal 100: A Ranking of the Individuals Who Have Most Influenced the Law, Citadel Press (1998), written by Darien A. McWhirter.


1 James Madison Episcopalian
2 Alexander Hamilton Episcopalian
3 John Marshall Episcopalian
4 Cicero ancient Greco-Roman philosophy; deist
5 Daniel Webster Unitarian
6 Clarence Darrow agnostic
7 William Mansfield  
8 Thomas Erskine Reformed Christian; Calvinist
9 Edward Marshall Hall  
10 Earl Warren Protestant
11 Edward Coke  
12 Francis Bacon Anglican
13 William Blackstone  
14 James Kent  
15 George Wythe Episcopalian
16 John Locke raised as a Puritan (Anglican); later general liberal Protestant Christian
17 Montesquieu  
18 Oliver Wendell Holmes Unitarian
19 Louis D. Brandeis Jewish
20 John Marshall Harlan  
21 Aristotle Greek philosophy; Platonism; Aristotelian philosophy
22 Jeremy Bentham atheist
23 John Stuart Mill agnostic; Utilitarian
24 John Austin  
25 Karl Marx Jewish; Lutheran; Atheist; Marxism/Communism
26 Earl Rogers  
27 Charles Evans Hughes  
28 Hugo Black Baptist
29 William O. Douglas Presbyterian
30 Felix Frankfurter Jewish
31 Hammurabi  
32 Solon  
33 Justinian I Catholic
34 Henry II  
35 Edward I  
36 Napoleon Bonaparte Catholic (nominal)
37 Benjamin Disraeli Jewish Anglican
38 William Gladstone  
39 Theodore Roosevelt Dutch Reformed; Episcopalian
40 Woodrow Wilson Presbyterian
41 Franklin D. Roosevelt Episcopalian
42 Lyndon Baines Johnson Disciples of Christ
43 Christopher Langdell  
44 Roscoe Pound  
45 Benjamin Cardozo  
46 Lemuel Shaw  
47 Mary Wollstonecraft Unitarian
48 William Godwin Sandemanian
49 Mohandas Gandhi Hindu; Jain
50 Susan B. Anthony Quaker; Unitarian
51 Emmeline Pankhurst  
52 Martin Luther King Jr. Baptist
53 Charles Hamilton Houston  
54 Thurgood Marshall Episcopalian
55 John W. Davis  
56 William Brennan Catholic
57 Thomas More Catholic
58 Edmund Burke Anglican
59 Andrew Hamilton  
60 Rufus Choate  
61 William Pinkney  
62 Patrick Henry Episcopalian
63 John Adams Unitarian
64 Thomas Jefferson raised Episcopalian; later no specific denomination
held Christian, Deist, Unitarian beliefs
65 Joseph Story Unitarian
66 William Johnson Presbyterian
67 Hugo Grotius  
68 Henry Maine  
69 Edward Livingston  
70 David Dudley Field  
71 Samuel Jones Tilden  
72 Joseph H. Choate  
73 Elihu Root  
74 Stephen Johnson Field  
75 Samuel Freeman Miller  
76 Joseph P. Bradley Presbyterian
77 Ferdinand Lassalle Jewish
78 Otto Von Bismarck  
79 Lenin Russian Orthodox; Communist
80 Abraham Lincoln raised Baptist; later no specific denomination
81 Henry Clay  
82 John C. Calhoun Presbyterian; Unitarian
83 Thurman Arnold  
84 Edward Bennett Williams  
85 Samuel Romilly  
86 Henry Brougham  
87 Daniel O'Connell Catholic
88 Alfred Denning  
89 H.L.A. Hart  
90 Patrick Hastings  
91 John Hemphill  
92 Sam Houston  
93 Learned Hand  
94 John Jay Episcopalian
95 William Jennings Bryan Presbyterian
96 Robert M. La Follette  
97 William M. Kunstler  
98 Sandra Day O'Connor Episcopalian
99 Erle Stanley Gardner  
100 John Mortimer  

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