Dig with links on the early history of Covington Burling Law firm, proof they are DEEP STATE!
Ed Burling, who founded the Washington law firm of Covington & Burling, whose partners later included Dean Acheson and Donald Hiss, brother of Alger. Frederic A. Delano married Mathilda Peasley of Chicago; Edward Burling married her sister Louise.
2/ They were the daughters of a railroad tycoon, James C. Peasley of the Burlington Railroad, also president of the National State Bank. Judge J. Harry Covington and Edward Burling founded the law firm of Covington and Burling in Washington in 1919.
3/ Covington, a Maryland congressman, had been appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Washington, D.C., by Woodrow Wilson as a reward for voting for the passage of the Federal Reserve Act. In 1918..
It is interesting to note some important historical footnotes concerning the law firm of Covington & Burling. George Rubble married Juliet Barrett, who was very active in the modern birth control movement, along with Margaret Sanger.
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