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The law faculty see no reason why any young woman who in respect to character and acquirements fulfilled the Conditions applicable to male students, and who chose to attend the law lectures in good faith for the purpose of becoming acquainted with the laws of her Country, should be denied that privilege.

The memo was in reaction to the efforts of Phoebe W. Couzins to enter the law school of the university. Two years later, Washington University of St. Louis became the first university in America to adopt a policy allowing female students.

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Henry Hitchcock

Born: September 11, 1792
Died: August 11, 1839
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Henry Hitchcock was the first Attorney General of Alabama, having been elected by the Alabama General Assembly in December 1819 in its initial session. He was also the Secretary of the Alabama Territory, the position which was the precursor to the modern-day Secretary of State of Alabama.

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