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Biography of Benjamin Barr Lindsey
Name: Benjamin Barr Lindsey
Birth Date: November 25, 1869
Death Date: March 26, 1943
Place of Birth: Jackson, Tennessee, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: jurist
Benjamin Barr Lindsey
Benjamin Barr Lindsey (1869-1943), American jurist and reformer, founded the juvenile court. His arguments favoring a loose construction of marriage vows helped modernize understanding of the implications of marriage.Benjamin B. Lindsey was born in Jackson, Tenn., on Nov. 25, 1869, the son of a Confederate soldier. He attended Southwest Baptist University. Financial necessity forced him to go to work. In despair over his slow progress in his law studies at Denver, Colo., he attempted suicide, but his gun misfired. He was admitted to the bar in 1894 and was soon involved with cases for the poor and young. Because of his Populist sympathies and democratic ideals he distrusted Colorado politics, but his services gained him the position of public administrator and guardian in the county court. In 1901 he was elected county judge.Soon Lindsey began his long battle on the behalf of children, sponsoring laws that shielded them from criminal prosecution. He also …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…in Bondage (1914).Although Lindsey supported America's entry into World War I, he continued to seem radical to Denver conservatives. His notoriety increased when he advocated "companionate marriage," which was carelessly identified as "free love." In fact, Lindsey, in The Companionate Marriage (1927), written with Wainwright Evans, had urged legal marriage, birth control, counselling, and divorce if all else failed. Nevertheless, his court was taken from him, and in 1929 he was debarred from practice in Colorado.The next year, in New York, Lindsey was publicly denounced by a Catholic bishop and arrested for protesting the false statements that had been made respecting his beliefs. Finally, Lindsey became a lawyer in Los Angeles, Calif., where he was elected judge of the supreme court. He died on March 26, 1943. Further Reading Lindsey's The Dangerous Life (1931), a collaboration with Rube Burrough, provides autobiographical data and polemics on his causes. Background is in Lincoln Steffens, Upbuilders (1909; repr. 1968).
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