Union Law School was a

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located in

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. It was founded in 1846 by Washington McCartney, and incorporated by the Pennsylvania legislature in 1854 as "Union Law School"; and was still operating at the time of his death in 1856. Its alumni included Congressman

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and Wisconsin state senator

Robert L. D. Potter Robert Lewis Dorr Potter (February 5, 1833November 2, 1893) was an American lawyer, Republican politician, and Wisconsin pioneer. He served four years as a member of the Wisconsin State Senate, representing Waushara County and central Wisconsi ...

. As Potter graduated in the spring of 1857, a historian in 2000 dismissed Union as "a one-man operation that died with him" 'i.e.'', McCartneyKnupfer, Peter B. ''Union As It Is: Constitutional Unionism and Sectional Compromise, 1787-1861'' Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000; chapter 2, endnote 54

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