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Guide To Ac002 - Records Of The Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, Jona Whipple

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Records of the Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, 1968

Founded in 1902, Phi Alpha Delta is the largest co-ed professional law fraternity in the United States with over 300,000 initiated members to date, approximately one in every six attorneys in the U.S. It was the first law fraternity to admit members of all races, creeds, colors, religions and national origins, as well as the first fraternity to admit women, which took place in September of 1970 with the admission of Anna Carolyn Fox Hinds of McReynolds Chapter.

Phi Alpha Delta was founded due to the Supreme Court’s November 4, 1897 …

Guide To Ac004 - Records Of The Phi Delta Phi Law Fraternity, Jona Whipple

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Records of the Phi Delta Phi Law Fraternity, 1947-1955

Founded in 1869, Phi Delta Phi is the oldest legal honorary association in North America. The Territorial Government of Michigan passed an act on August 26, 1817 to establish the “Catholepistemiad,” or University of Michigania, to be located in Detroit. Dissatisfied with the administration of the university, the Territorial Legislature repealed the act and established the University of Michigan as a successor corporation with full rights. The campus was moved from Detroit to Ann Arbor and the establishment of a law school was planned in 1837, the same year Michigan officially …

Guide To Ac003 - Records Of The Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity, Jona Whipple

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Records of the Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity, 1930-1973

Delta Theta Phi was founded at the Cleveland Law School of Baldwin-Wallace College (now Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University) in Ohio in 1900 and became a national fraternity in 1904. In September of 1913, the fraternity amalgamated three other fraternities, Alpha Kappa Phi (begun in Chicago, 1902), Theta Lambda Phi (Pennsylvania, 1903) and Sigma Nu Phi (National University Law School, 1903). In 1969, the fraternity became international with the first two senates chartered outside of the United States. In 1989 Delta Theta Phi merged with Sigma Nu Phi, …