History - Police

A favor from a stranger helped Gleason Archer attend police schoolhouse and bring together a law business firm after graduation. When his distributor refused repayment, he founded an evening police force schoolhouse that has become i of the largest police force schoolhouse in the country.

George Frost, a businessman and philanthropist, met a young human while traveling from Greatcoat Cod to Boston. The young human, Gleason Archer, had been working that summer to finance his college studies and was returning to Boston to be treated for an injury. Frost befriended the boyfriend and, over time loaned him funds to consummate his law school education. Later, Frost helped Archer obtain a position in a constabulary house after graduation.

When Archer attempted to repay his distributor, Frost refused saying, "If you ever take a chance to laissez passer this favor along to others, practise it for me."

More than 100 years ago, Suffolk Law School was founded to ensure higher education for those seeking opportunity. In an attempt to repay the generosity shown him past George Frost, Gleason Archer established Suffolk Police force as an evening police force school for immature men like himself. He reached out to students working to better themselves and their communities through the study of law.

Suffolk University Law Schoolhouse has not wavered from its founding principles. The path to education widened by founder Gleason Archer has become a broad artery of opportunity.

Suffolk Academy Law Schoolhouse was founded on the premise that capable men and women should accept the opportunity to written report law regardless of background or circumstances. While it has grown to exist one of the largest law schools in the country, with thriving day and evening programs, Suffolk Law has remained truthful to its mission to provide fantabulous teaching and preparation for a diverse educatee body.

Suffolk University historic its centennial with a series of year long events and a timeline display in the Cameron Not bad Hall. View pictures from Suffolk Law School's Centennial Timeline.

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Law School public display in lobby

Timeline

Over 100 years ago, Suffolk Constabulary School was founded to ensure higher didactics for those seeking opportunity. Retrace the history that has elevated Suffolk Constabulary to go one of the largest police schools in the land.

1899 - Gleason Archer

Sabattus High School portrait of Gleason Archer, who would proceed to graduate as valedictorian of the Form of 1902 (1899).

1906 - Gleason Archer, the year of Suffolk's founding

1906 - "Here is where I became a lawyer"

Gleason Archer inscribed this color postcard of the Boston Court House, "Here is where I became a lawyer at nine:30 this morning Thousand.50. Archer August 21 '06" (1906).

1909 - Diploma from the commencement Graduating Class

The diploma of Roland E. Brownish. Brown, a machinist, was a member of the first class and the commencement Suffolk student to laissez passer the Massachusetts Bar. He achieved this feat as a junior in 1908.

1911 - Evening school freshmen

1914 - Suffolk Law School

This building at 45 Mount Vernon Street, Boston, was the Law School's habitation first in 1914, the year the school received its degree-granting charter and changed its name to Suffolk Law School. Considering Archer had mortgaged his home to purchase the building, he and his family moved into the top flooring (1914).

1914 - Interior, 45 Mount Vernon Street

1915 - Thomas Vreeland Jones

Thomas Vreeland Jones was one of the first African Americans to graduate from Suffolk Constabulary School, in 1915 at age 40. His family and friends established a scholarship in his retention (1915).

1915 - Suffolk Law School Annals

1916 - Archer'southward Home Law School

Suffolk University grew from apprehensive beginnings in the living room of Gleason Archer's home in Roxbury. Here, on September 19, 1906, the young lawyer began educational activity a handful of workingmen who wished to study police force in the evenings (1916).

1916 - A chair commemorates the spot where Gleason Archer presented his first lecture

1918 - Suffolk Police's endmost exercises brochure

1919 - Catharine C. Caraher

Catharine C. Caraher was 17 when Gleason Archer hired her as his secretary in 1919. Eventually she became banana treasurer and director of the executive staff (1919).

1920 - Suffolk Constabulary School'southward form photo

1920 - Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge

Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge delivers his first public accost later on being nominated for the vice presidency of the United states of america. The occasion was the laying of the cornerstone for the Archer Building on August 4, 1920.

1920 - SULS day division officers

1920 - Eight member Editorial Staff

The Suffolk Police force Schoolhouse Register continues as the students' news vehicle, under the guidance of an eight-member editorial staff (1920).

1920 - Suffolk's senior feast at the Boston Metropolis Lodge

1922 - Suffolk Law School'south Grade of 1922

1922 - Shichiro Hayashi, member of the Class of 1922

1925 - Suffolk Police Schoolhouse's Grade of 1925

1926 - Gleason Archer installed an enormous electric sign atop the Suffolk Police School Building advertising the school

1927 - Commencement Brochure

1928 - Admission Coupon

An "admission coupon" used in the Constabulary School from 1921 until World War Two. Each time a pupil attended course he was required to present one of these tickets to a monitor, allowing tuition payment and attendance to exist recorded simultaneously (1928).

1929 - Harry Hom Dow

Harry Hom Dow (1904–1985), who graduated in 1929, became the first Chinese-American admitted to the Massachusetts Bar. He practiced immigration law in Boston and New York and served in World War Ii and the Korean War. Returning to Boston, he devoted his fourth dimension to the issues of housing, health care, and legal services for the poor (1929).

1931 - Suffolk Law School'southward Class of 1931

1937 - Members of the structure gang working on the add-on to the University Building

1937 - Suffolk University'southward Graduate School of Law Class of 1937

1937 - Archer & Boynton

Gleason Archer joins Suffolk Trustee Thomas Jefferson Boynton at the Suffolk Academy Kinesthesia Gild. In add-on to beingness a Trustee, Mr. Boynton served as Massachusetts Attorney General and Mayor of Everett, Massachusetts (1937).

1937 - Crooner Rudy Vallee enrolls in Suffolk Police force School - a publicity stunt hatched by his friend Gleason Archer

Outset female at Suffolk Constabulary School

1937 - Suffolk Law Schoolhouse's Class of 1937

1938 - Professor Stinchfield education Agency Law

1940 - Police force students report in Suffolk'southward library

1940 - Gleason Archer with students and alumni

1940 - Gleason, Elizabeth, and Hiram Archer

1948 - Dean Frank Simpson

Dean Frank Simpson, who served equally Dean from 1942 to 1952. He added a total-time mean solar day plan, a summer session, and new electives (1948).

1949 - Students written report in the Suffolk Police Library

1949 - "In Memoriam Suffolk Alumni Who Died in WWII That We Might Alive as Free Men"

1950 - Judge Frank J. Donahue, a University treasurer and longtime Trustee, was known every bit "Mr. Suffolk"

1950 - Students were once again able to strop their advocacy skills when the Moot Court programme was reestablished afterwards the war

1950 - Bursar Dorothy McNamara

Bursar Dorothy McNamara and her office staff, including Alice DeRosa on left. "Dottie Mac" was beloved by generations of Suffolk students and alumni, for whom she served as a counselor and advocate during her 47 years at the University (1950).

1950 - Ted Williams

Red Sox superstar Ted Williams accepts a Suffolk varsity letter of the alphabet from Dick Conway and Don Shea of the Suffolk University Varsity Club (1950).

1950 - Dean Archer presents a Suffolk diploma to a graduate

1952 - Dean John F.X. O'Brien, who served as Dean from 1952 to 1956

1955 - Catherine Judge

Catherine Judge (JD '57, LLM '60) became Suffolk's commencement adult female law professor in 1966 (right). She joined Suffolk as the Constabulary School Registrar in 1955. Her involvement with the Law School spanned more than than half a century. She is shown as registrar in 1955.

1957 - Senator John Kennedy, Senator Leverett Saltonstall, and Senator Sam Ervin receive honorary degrees from Suffolk Academy Law School

1960 - Attorney Melvin Belli, "King of Torts," addresses the Suffolk Law Community

1961 - The Briefcase, the Suffolk Constabulary Student Bar Association's Newsletter

1962 - The Briefcase, the Suffolk Constabulary Student Bar Association's Newsletter

1964 - Senator Ted Kennedy receives an honorary caste

1966 - A new edifice at 41 Temple Street, dedicated in 1966, housed the Police Schoolhouse. It later was named in honor of Guess Donahue

1966 - Supreme Courtroom Justice Thomas Clark delivers a Starting time accost

1967 - Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill

House Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill receives an honorary degree from Suffolk University President Thomas A. Fulham and Board Chairman John E. Fenton (1967).

1967 - Suffolk Academy Law Review Book 1, Number i

1969 - Temple Street, Buoy Hill

1969 - Dean John Fenton, Jr., and President John Fenton, Sr.

1969 - Dean Donald Simpson, who served as Dean from 1964 to 1972

1970 - Professor Thomas Lambert

Professor Thomas Lambert, a veteran of the Nuremberg Trials who was noted for his expertise on tort law. An endowed chair has been named in his honor (1970).

1971 - Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader addresses a Suffolk University Law School upshot. SBA President and future Suffolk University Police force School Associate Dean John Deliso (JD '72) is seated at far left (1971).

1972 - Presidential candidate George McGovern Speaks at Suffolk

1973 - U.s.a. Supreme Courtroom Justice William O. Douglas, with Dean David Sargent (JD '54) and Trustee Chairman John Fenton, Sr.

1973 - Dicta, Volume Two, Number 1. Dicta, Suffolk University Law Schoolhouse'south educatee paper, began publication in October, 1972

1973 - Dean David Sargent, who began pedagogy at Suffolk in 1956 and served equally Dean from 1972 until being appointed President of Suffolk University in 1989

1973 - The winners of the Jessup Moot Court Competition

1974 - Staff Members of the Suffolk University Law Review

1976 - Suffolk Transnational Law Periodical, Volume 1, Number One

1977 - Barbara L. Beccles (JD '76) receives the Frederick A. McDermott Award. This award is given past the SULS Student Bar Clan to an alumnus who has fabricated significant contributions to the police school community

1978 - Louis Nizer

Chaser and writer Louis Nizer (middle) at a Suffolk Constabulary Forum with Suffolk Academy President Thomas A. Fulham and the Honorable Malcolm Donahue (1978).

1978 - The Honorable Charlotte Perretta (JD '67), Dean David Sargent, and Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis

1978 - Dr. Benjamin Spock visits the law school

1979 - Claudia Billings, Professor Eric Blumenson, Tom Robinson, and Paul Carrigan, of the Suffolk Voluntary Defenders Program

1979 - Professor Catherine Estimate teaches a Contracts class

1980 - President Daniel H. Perlman addresses a Police Alumni Dinner. President Perlman served as Suffolk Academy's President from 1980 to 1989

1980 - A discussion sponsored by the Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) in 1981. Suffolk is a fellow member of CLEO, which works to promote law schoolhouse opportunities for minority and depression-income students

1981 - The SULS Black Law Student Association'southward Alumni Directory

1992 - Dean Paul Sugarman, who served every bit Dean from 1989 to 1994

1994 - Interim Dean William T. Corbett (JD '75), who served as acting Dean from 1998 to 1999

1996 - David J. Sargent Hall's construction site

1996 - The Law School celebrates its 90th anniversary

1996 - Dean John Due east. Fenton, Jr., who served equally Dean from 1995 to 1998

1997 - President David Sargent, Congressman Joseph Moakley, the Honorable Marianne B. Bowler (JD '76), and the Honorable Marita A. Hopkins (JD '79) celebrate Sargent Hall'south "top off" ceremony

1997 - Coretta Scott King receives an honorary Doc of Humane Letters degree from President David Sargent

1999 - David J. Sargent Hall, dedicated in September, 1999

1999 - Suffolk University President David J. Sargent

1999 - Dean Robert Smith, who became Suffolk University Law Schoolhouse's Dean in 1999

1999 - Adjunct Professor Brian Hurley and students Wendy Lee (JD '01) and Anthony "Boomer" Dellorfan (JD '00) re-enact the Boston Massacre Trial

2000 - A class photo from Suffolk's Summer Law Programme in Lund, Sweden

2000 - President David J. Sargent, Dean Paul Sugarman, Dean John E. Fenton, Jr., and Dean Robert Smith

2000 - Students studying in Sargent Hall's Moakley Constabulary Library. The Moakley Police force Library encompasses iii floors of Sargent Hall, spanning 96,000 square anxiety and containing more than than 360,000 printed and microfilm volumes

2000 - Students participating in course in one of Sargent Hall's 18 classrooms

2002 - NBC political analyst and Suffolk University honorary degree recipient Tim Russert moderating a Massachusetts Gubernatorial Debate

2006 - The inaugural class of Suffolk University Law School's LLM in U.Southward. Law for International Business Lawyers, held in Budapest, Hungary