Attorney General: James C. McReynolds
James Clark McReynolds was born in Elkton, Kentucky, on February 3, 1862. He obtained a bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University in 1882 and studied law at the University of Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1884 and practiced law in Nashville, Tennessee. McReynolds was a professor of law at Vanderbilt Law School from 1900 to 1903, before being appointed Assistant Attorney General in the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt. Afterwards, he moved to New York to engage in private practice.
McReynolds was appointed Attorney General of the United States by President Woodrow Wilson in March 1913, and remained in that office until August 1914 when he became Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He served on the Court until 1941. McReynolds died on August 24, 1946, in Washington,D.C.
Hubert Vos was born in 1855 in Maastricht, Holland, and studied in Rome, Paris, and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. He established a studio in London in 1887 in which he specialized in portraiture. He also opened two art schools. Vos emigrated from England to the United States in 1892 and became a naturalized citizen in 1898. The Vos portrait of Attorney General McReynolds was painted in 1914. Hubert Vos died in 1935.