University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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 Co honorable n. % fiammoml Whose Services in Behalf of the University Have Won for Him the Esteem and Confidence of all its Friends and Supporters, this Volume of Pandora is Respectfully Dedicated. ii i

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HON. N. J. HAMMOND.

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 fionorabk Hatbaiml % fiammcmd. r Nathaniel j. hammond, a.m.. ll.d., the distinguished Chairman of the Board of Trustees, was born in Elbert county, Georgia, December 26th, 1S33; received his elementary education and was prepared for college in private schools in Monroe county, where he resided during his boyhood; was graduated from the University in 1852; admitted to the bar in 1853. He began practice of the law in Atlanta in 1855, in copartnership with his father under the firm name of A. W. Hammond and Son; was Solicitor-General of the Atlanta Circuit, 1S61-61; Reporter for the Supreme Court of Georgia, 1867-72; Attorney-General, 1S72-77; Member of the Constitutional Conventions of 1863 and S77; Representative in the 46th. 47th. and 48th Congresses, 1S7S-S3. He was elected as representative of the Alumni in the Board of Trustees in 1872; was made a life-member in 1874. and Chairman of the Board on the death of Hon. J. J. Gresham, in June, 1S89. On reorganization of the Board by legislative enactment in November, 1889, he was appointed a member from the State at large, and on expiration of his term of office in 1897. was reappointed from the State at large for a further term of eight years. Was elected Chairman of the reorganized Board at its first meeting and has been continuously re-elected to that office since. Received the honorary degree of Doctor of Law from his Alma Mater in 1896. There is not living in Georgia to-day a more distinguished citizen than the honored Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University, if the true measure of distinction be eminent ability, lofty character, purity of living, wisdom of counsel in public affairs, valuable public service and uns.clfish devotion of time, talents and means to all interests affecting the honor and welfare of the Commonwealth. All who knfliw him testify to his unswerving integrity in act and purpose and to the beauty of his consistently Christian private life. Engaged uninterruptedly in the study and the practice of law for a period of forty-five years, he has became almost the Nestor of his profession in the State and i recognized universally by the bench and bar as without a superior in the ability and power which go to make a 12