Country lawyer
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In the United States and Canada, a country lawyer or county-seat lawyer is an attorney at law living and practicing primarily in a rural area or town, or an attorney pursuing a rural or small-town leg
Recreation of future Canadian prime minister John Diefenbaker's first law office in Wakaw, Saskatchewan
Sam Ervin
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Samuel James Ervin Jr. was an American politician who served as a U.S. senator from North Carolina from 1954 to 1974. A Southern Democrat, he liked to call himself a "country lawyer", and often told h
Country lawyer
…Deane C. Davis (1900-1990), Governor of Vermont. Sam Ervin (1896–1985), Democratic U.S. Senator (1954–1974), and leading member of Congressional committees involved in discrediting McCarthy in 1954 and Nixon…
Sam Ervin
Sam Ervin (right), as chair of the Senate Watergate Committee alongside Howard Baker (center) and Fred Thompson (left)
Entrance to Ervin Library at Western Piedmont Community College in Morganton
Ervin's Senate desk